Govts including India, Japan, Singapore, UAE, and Canada plan to make LLMs based on citizens’ data in part *to protect national culture*
"The goal: to develop AI locally and train large language models in their native languages, based on their own citizens’ data..."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvid...
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Imagine trying to explain a “sovereign cloud” to Hobbes.
“Some countries are also seeking to safeguard their local culture—and their national security—in an AI-centric world after feeling they had been also-rans in the mobile-phone and cloud-computing revolutions.”
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