Sovereign digital infrastructure — nothing leaves unseen.https://sentinel.junaid.pk/enhttps://sentinel.junaid.pk/blog/2026-07-20-sentinel-ai-is-live/https://sentinel.junaid.pk/blog/2026-07-20-sentinel-ai-is-live/A sovereign, in-country AI cloud — live on Sky47 Ascend NPUs, serving a 35B model over an OpenAI-compatible API. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Sentinel AI is a sovereign AI cloud by <strong>Mercurial Minds</strong>. Inference runs in Pakistan on Sky47 Ascend NPUs; sensitive and defence traffic stays in-country with zero external egress.</p> <h2 id="what-runs-today">What runs today</h2> <ul> <li>A live <strong>35B</strong> model — <code dir="auto">qwen36-35b-a3b</code>, 128K context — on a Huawei Ascend NPU slice in region <code dir="auto">pk-isb-1</code>.</li> <li>The <strong>Sentinel Mesh</strong> gateway at <code dir="auto">sentinel.junaid.pk/v1</code>, speaking <strong>OpenAI</strong>, <strong>Anthropic</strong>, and <strong>Gemini</strong> wire formats over one pipeline.</li> <li>Virtual API keys with per-key rate caps, credit metering in <strong>PKR</strong>, guardrail checks, and capacity priority <strong>defence › paid › free</strong>.</li> <li>The <strong>Sentinel Platform</strong> developer console at <a href="https://sentinel.junaid.pk/app"><code dir="auto">/app</code></a> and the free <strong>Playground</strong> at <a href="https://sentinel.junaid.pk/playground"><code dir="auto">/playground</code></a>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="why-it-holds">Why it holds</h2> <p>The moat is sovereignty plus Ascend hardware: in-country inference on silicon independent of US export controls — a requirement government, banking, and defence buyers cannot get from a foreign cloud.</p> <p>Point your existing SDK at the gateway and make your first call in the <a href="https://sentinel.junaid.pk/quickstart/">Quickstart</a>.</p>sovereignlaunchinference