Updates from HostYourAI
Product releases, what we build under the hood, and how we work on EU-sovereign AI infrastructure.
Groningse Jantine (34) bouwt AI-chatbot
A video report on Loes, the Dutch AI chat being built in Groningen.
HostYourAI raises first funding for sovereign AI hosting platform in Europe
HostYourAI has raised its first external capital in an early-stage funding round led by Volta Ventures. The Groningen-based company is building a hosting platform that lets organisations use AI models entirely within European jurisdiction. HostYourAI will use the investment to further develop the platform and grow across Europe.
A rebuilt API keys page
A clear table with masked keys and usage per key, plus BYOK for Autopilot and a new MCP connector.
Router: one API, several models and providers behind it
Now with automatic model choice (Autopilot) and insight into which provider handled your traffic.
Loes Large World: a new finetune as the default model
The default model on chat.loes.ai now runs a LoRA finetune on top of Qwen3.5-27B, dedicated on a single H100.
Loes Lab is live
A test environment for people with their own GPU: sign up as a tester and run along with what we build.
The GPU Pool: earn for every second your card works for us
Anyone in Europe with a modern NVIDIA card can install our agent and earn: from €0.04/hour for an RTX 3060 up to €1.57/hour for an H100.
In Groningen wordt gebouwd aan Nederlandse AI: "we zijn te afhankelijk"
An interview about building Dutch AI infrastructure in Groningen.
Baby Loes: our own language model, trained from scratch
Not a finetune of somebody else’s model but an architecture of our own, pretrained by us. Now an experimental preview in Loes Lab.
Jantine Doornbos bouwde een Nederlands alternatief voor ChatGPT en Claude: "Loes is een vriendin"
Jantine Doornbos argues the Netherlands needs an AI assistant of its own, one we control, and one that fits the local culture. It became Loes.ai.
Auto Billing: your balance tops itself up
An automatic top-up as soon as your balance drops below a threshold you set, with safety limits built in.
Earn: get paid for the compute in your own machine
Connect your Mac or PC with a GPU to HostYourAI. You help train Loes (never customer traffic) and get paid per second.
Super Loes: the heavier, thinking model next to regular Loes
Where Loes answers fast, Super Loes takes its time to reason. Both sit in the model picker by default.
Come build the future of AI in Europe with us
HostYourAI and Loes are growing fast. We’re hiring across engineering, model quality, inference, frontend and sales.
Nederlandse ontwikkelt Loes AI, alternatief voor ChatGPT
On Loes as a Dutch alternative to ChatGPT.
Loes AI: Nederlands alternatief voor ChatGPT, draait lokaal en veilig
A Dutch alternative to ChatGPT that runs locally and safely.
"En daar is Loes, de Nederlandstalige AI-chatassistent"
AG Connect on Loes, the Dutch-speaking AI chat assistant.
Groningse ontwikkelt eerste Nederlandse AI-assistent Loes AI
A Groningen founder builds the first Dutch AI assistant.
Kimi K3 runs in Europe, on your own GPUs
2.8 trillion parameters and a 1M token context window, on 8 B300s in a European datacenter. Your data never leaves the EU.
"Dit is gewoon de Nederlandse ChatGPT"
On De Grote Tech Show the hosts call Loes AI the Dutch version of ChatGPT.