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| title: SouthByte |
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| short_description: AI governance for German SMEs — EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 |
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| # SOUTH.BYTE |
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| **AI governance and IT consulting for German mid-sized companies.** |
| EU AI Act · ISO/IEC 42001 · on-premise LLM deployments · Munich area. |
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| Run by [Michael van den Berg](https://huggingface.co/M-vdBerg) — ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer, |
| ITIL 4 Strategic Leader. Website: **[southbyte.de](https://southbyte.de/)** |
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| ## What this organization is for |
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| SouthByte advises companies that already use AI and need to know what that means legally and |
| operationally. The work is hands-on rather than paper-only: model selection, on-premise |
| deployment, risk classification under the EU AI Act, and the governance around it. |
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| This org exists to host what can be shared publicly from that work. Right now that is mainly |
| the evaluation results linked below — the models themselves are third-party, so there is |
| nothing to re-upload. |
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| ## Public artifacts |
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| **Model evaluations — [results.southbyte.de](https://results.southbyte.de/)** |
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| Own test rig for on-premise operation, run on an NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10). Current run: |
| **45 language models** served under vLLM, **5 guard models**, **6 image models** and |
| **16 TTS models**, scored on answer quality, German-language capability, bias, code and |
| throughput. Machine-readable summary: [`summary.json`](https://results.southbyte.de/summary.json). |
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| The headline metrics are public. The security-relevant detail reports are deliberately not — |
| publishing a ranked list of which guard models fail on which attack class helps the wrong |
| people. If you work in AI safety and need them for research, get in touch. |
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| **German PII recognizers for Presidio — |
| [data-privacy-stack/presidio](https://github.com/data-privacy-stack/presidio)** |
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| Contributed the `DE_*` recognizers for German personally identifiable data, including |
| checksum validation implemented against primary sources. Presidio is the widely used |
| open-source framework for detecting and anonymizing PII — a building block most German AI |
| projects need sooner or later. |
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| ## What you will not find here |
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| No fine-tunes of other people's models re-uploaded under a new name, no benchmark claims |
| without a reproducible setup, and no "AI-powered" anything. If something is published here, |
| the method is documented and the numbers can be checked. |
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| ## Contact |
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| kontakt@southbyte.de · [southbyte.de](https://southbyte.de/) · |
| [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael--van-den-berg/) · |
| [GitHub](https://github.com/MvdB) |
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| ## Deutsch |
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| **AI Governance und IT-Beratung für den Mittelstand.** EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, |
| On-Prem-Betrieb von Sprachmodellen. Großraum München. |
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| Diese Organisation hostet, was aus der Beratungsarbeit öffentlich geteilt werden kann. |
| Derzeit sind das vor allem die **Modell-Evaluationen** unter |
| [results.southbyte.de](https://results.southbyte.de/): 45 Sprachmodelle unter vLLM, |
| 5 Guard-Modelle, 6 Bildmodelle und 16 TTS-Modelle auf einer NVIDIA DGX Spark, bewertet nach |
| Antwortqualität, Deutschfähigkeit, Bias, Code und Durchsatz. |
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| Die Kennzahlen sind veröffentlicht, die sicherheitsrelevanten Detailberichte bewusst nicht. |
| Dazu kommen die deutschen PII-Erkennungsregeln (`DE_*`) für |
| [Presidio](https://github.com/data-privacy-stack/presidio), inklusive Prüfziffernvalidierung |
| nach Primärquellen. |
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| Kontakt: kontakt@southbyte.de |
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