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Silvan Gebhardt
Bringing hyperscale performance to local hardware—so your AI models stay sharp, your services stay close, and your data stays yours.

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Silvan Gebhardt is a systems architect and product owner with over a decade of experience in large-scale network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and performance engineering. He currently also serves as an international ISP and managed services provider. His professional expertise spans secure data routing, on-premise infrastructure, and cloud-network hybrid designs. Silvan specializes in the optimization of critical paths in low-level system operations—from packet injection and memory management to scalable service orchestration. At Helheimlabs, he supports the secure deployment and hosting of AI applications, including localized LLM-based educational games. His focus on privacy-respecting infrastructure ensures that complex AI systems can run securely on repurposed hardware, reducing dependency on large cloud providers. Silvan has a strong background in open-source technologies and brings strategic depth to technical decision-making in AI-driven projects.

Getting you back from the Cloud to keep your Data, your AI System and your Internet service provider nearby

Friday AI detox: Reclaiming Thought in the Age of Infinite AI

Friday AI detox: Reclaiming Thought in the Age of Infinite AI

By Silvan Gebhardt and Satu Korhonen On June 10, 2025, ChatGPT went down and with it, an eerie silence settled across digital offices worldwide. As reported by Pivot to AI, entire categories of work ground to a halt. Not just coding, copy-writing, or planning, but...

Adversarial Testing of AI is not Optional

Adversarial Testing of AI is not Optional

by: Satu Korhonen and Silvan Gebhardt AI systems fail in unpredictable ways, from suggesting insecure code to leaking sensitive data. Learn why traditional security testing isn’t enough and why adversarial testing is essential to understanding and mitigating the real...

Building sovereign networks and AI platforms that prioritize speed, transparency, and ownership…from the packet to the model.

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Monitoring

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