About · Why we exist

Someone has to build the alternative. For thirty-three years, that has been us.

The hyperscalers built infrastructure that answers to them. E-Group builds infrastructure that answers to the people running it. Founded in Budapest in 1993, we build identity, data, and intelligence systems for governments, banks, and healthcare institutions where the cost of failure is not a metric on a slide. The systems are quiet because they work. The institutions running on them know who we are. Everyone else is about to.

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The story

A company that kept building.

E-Group was founded in 1993 by Antal Kuthy and András Nagy on that premise before sovereign AI had a name, before the hyperscalers existed, before European digital independence became a policy question. Thirty-three years later the premise has not changed. The infrastructure has.

E-Group builds identity, data, and intelligence systems for governments, banks, healthcare networks, and energy operators — environments where the consequences of failure are measured not in metrics but in a national grid going dark, a citizen unable to access their medical record, a payment system unable to clear.The systems are quiet because they work. MAVIR has run Hungary's electricity trading and settlement infrastructure for twenty-five years without failure. KAÜ authenticates every Hungarian citizen across every government service, every day. HeliX moves clinical intelligence across four countries without a patient record ever leaving its home institution.

These are not references. They are the argument for a different kind of AI future, sovereign by design, human-centred by principle, trusted by architecture.

Privately owned and founder-led, E-Group answers to no external investor whose timeline conflicts with the work. Antal Kuthy and András Nagy built the first systems and still run the company. The team that built the platforms is the team that operates them. Within IPCEI-CIS - the largest sovereign cloud and AI programme in Europe - E-Group co-leads Workstream 3 and the AI Cluster across nineteen enterprises in seven member states.

Europe must build its own AI future. One that reflects its values, protects its citizens, and strengthens its independence. Sovereign AI is not just a technological need. It is a strategic responsibility. E-Group has been building toward it since before anyone called it that.

We build, we ship, and we stay.

  1. FOUNDED

    Antal Kuthy and András Nagy launch E-Group in Budapest. Early banking infrastructure work begins.

    1993
  2. SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

    PKI, Digital Signature, applications

    1997
  3. DIGITAL BANKING

    Payment processing solutions

    2007
  4. DIGITAL IDENTITY & SMART DATA

    Attributes and trust management. Data lakes and advanced analytics, applied AI

    2015
  5. SOVEREIGN AI PLATFORM

    Federated, distributed, sovereign AI platform development. IPCEI-CIS member (from 2022)

    2025

Leadership

Founders, operators, researchers.
All of them still here.

E-Group is a founder-led company. Antal Kuthy and András Nagy are still running it, alongside the senior team that built most of the systems on The Work page.

  • Chief ExecutiveCEOCo-founder1993

    Antal Kuthy

    E-Group’s founder and CEO is a sought-after international keynote speaker and thought leader on artificial intelligence and its ethical implications including who owns it, whose values it serves, and how it remains accountable to people.

    In 2026, he co-chaired a roundtable on digital goods for humanity at the Vatican-convened Global Assembly of Nobel Laureates on AI. The values Antal stands for are reflected in E-Group’s project vision and technology roadmap.

    EU Industry Steering Board of IPCEI-CIS member

    IPCEI-CIS AI Cluster (Co-lead)

  • Chief TechnicalCTOCo-founder1993

    András Nagy

    Co-founder and CTO. Architect of KAÜ, the national digital identity system that authenticates every Hungarian citizen across every government service.

    The technical conscience of the company. Most of E-Group's longest-running platforms ship because András was the last person to read the design before they did.

    KAÜ · CORPEX · MAVIR architecture

    Certified Information Systems Auditor

People in numbers

A company built around
the engineers

E-Group is mostly engineers. The product team, the research department, the architects, the field engineers running active deployments. Not a sales-led organisation; an engineering-led one.

  • 72,000+

    TFLOPS

    Sovereign AI compute, running in Budapest, available to Europe.

  • 110+

    EU Engineers

    Researchers and engineers working specifically on the AI stack.

  • 33

    Years

    Building, shipping, and operating mission-critical systems.

  • 1

    Headquarters

    Budapest. Co-located with the research labs.

Recognition

External markers of
the work being real.

  • Hungarian state honour2025

    Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.

    Awarded to Dr. Péter Antal, Lead Researcher, for the foundational research underneath the company's federated AI and sovereign infrastructure work. One of Hungary's highest civilian distinctions.

  • European Commission2026

    IPCEI-CIS co-leadership

    E-Group co-leads Workstream 3 and the AI Cluster of the EU's most significant cloud and AI infrastructure programme. Seven member states, nineteen enterprises, €3.5bn total.

  • Sovereign AIResponsible AI

    Europe Must Reclaim the Sovereignty of Intelligence

    Why sovereign AI cannot be bought from the same companies that built the dependency. A working architecture for European institutions.

Where we are

Budapest.
From the start.

E-Group has been headquartered in Budapest since 1993. Engineering, research, and design work under one roof and the same building hosts EU programme workshops for the Important Project of Common European Interest in Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS), the 8ra Initiative for sovereign AI industrialisation, and the Ambiti8n federated AI demonstrator.

Future advisory board

Being assembled now. Named here when confirmed

E-Group is convening an external advisory board to support the company's European strategy: regulated-industry executives, EU programme leaders, and senior figures in identity, federated data, and sovereign AI. The names will appear here when the board is confirmed. If your work could plausibly belong on this list, the conversation starts via the Endorse lane.