Taskin Karlar is the founder and CEO of Sector88, the infrastructure for AI beyond the cloud. He has founded and scaled deep tech companies across AI, biotech and aerospace, and holds board and group CTO roles. At Sector88 he leads the forward-deployed engineering team that takes AI from first benchmark to hardened production in defence, space, energy and sovereign compute, connected or completely cut off.
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The cloud has a blast radius: AI continuity in 2026
War, heat, lightning, an automated account flag and ransomware took cloud regions down in 2026. AI in critical systems needs a smaller blast radius.
Self-replicating AI will live on compute nobody owns
Anthropic says small AI models may soon self-replicate across cheap IoT devices. The risk is not edge AI. It is edge compute with no operator in command.
Data centres are now targets
Drone strikes on data centres in Russia and Ukraine show a cloud region is a building. AI in critical systems must keep running when one goes dark.
Location is not control: Australia's AI sovereignty test
Megawatts and postcodes are not sovereignty. Australia's AI Standards must force a visible control chain for Commonwealth and critical infrastructure AI, or the country will certify racks while someone else owns the layer that matters.
How to fix vLLM OOM (CUDA out of memory): 8 steps
vLLM crashing with CUDA out of memory? Fix it in 8 steps, from gpu_memory_utilization and max_model_len to quantisation and memory tiering.
What is sovereign AI? Definition and 5 tests
Sovereign AI is AI you fully control: the model, the data and the infrastructure stay under your legal and physical control. Definition, examples and 5 tests.
Why We Built Sector88
From solving GPU memory crashes in production ML systems to building infrastructure that makes on-premise AI deployment actually work. The story behind Sector88.
Introducing Sector88: AI compute for constrained hardware
Running AI should not require unlimited GPU budgets or a cloud connection. How Sector88 runs AI compute on constrained hardware, starting with the memory wall.
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