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At the February 2024 World Government Summit in Dubai, NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang was pushing the concept of sovereign AI.
He stressed the importance of countries, including developing nations, to invest in AI infrastructure and generative AI that reflects their unique cultural and linguistic heritage.
While mildly self-serving - we believe he is correct. Every sovereign should be developing an AI infrastructure, deep learning capabilities and ultimately proprietary generative AI models.
It is not just about preserving culture and language - it is about building AI capability so it can be made available to the broader community.
We are looking for greater leadership from the Australian Government.
The CSIRO through Data61 and the Universities are making great strides, but the capital requirements to develop a sovereign AI platform are significant.
The Federal and State Government could supercharge our journey. Not through handouts, but through incentives and community engagement.
We are of course happy to help. :-). Click on the link below for more information:
Middle East
The Middle East are running hard at developing their AI capability.
Abu Dhabi has already developed a high quality artificial intelligence model called "Falcon" which is open source, so available for for research and commercial use.
The UAE have made some solid progress, having developed an early stage large language modell
Saudia Arabia are buying thousands of the latest H-100 GPU chips.
United Kingdom
The UK government has undertaken a range of policy initiatives in recent years to develop its 'strategic approach' to the use of AI.
This includes the establishment of a Foundation Model Taskforce and funding of £100 million to deliver the government’s ambitions for UK capability in safe and reliable foundation models.
This initiative is in addition to investment of around £900 million for ‘a new ‘exascale’ supercomputer and a dedicated AI Research Resource to equip the UK with the processing power it needs to support the next generation of AI innovation.
Singapore
Singapore is seeking to advance its Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities through the National Multimodal Large Language Model Programme - a collaborative effort involving a range of Singaporean organisations.
Their goal is to make Singapore a global AI leader by 2030 - a global AI hub.
The key point is that a cornerstone of this initiative is the development of multimodal and localised large language models that reflect the diverse cultures and languages of Southeast Asia.
We expect there will be many more announcements from sovereigns developing their own generative AI platforms over the coming 12 months.
We would like to see Australia get involved.
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