NVIDIA Calls for Global Investment into Sovereign AI

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Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, control their own data and take advantage of technology opportunities in areas such as transportation, communications, commerce, entertainment and healthcare. AI, the most important technology of our time, is turbocharging innovation across every facet of society. It's expected to generate trillions of dollars in economic dividends and productivity gains. Countries are investing in sovereign AI to develop and harness such benefits on their own. Sovereign AI refers to a nation's capabilities to produce artificial intelligence using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and business networks.

Why Sovereign AI Is Important
The global imperative for nations to invest in sovereign AI capabilities has grown since the rise of generative AI, which is reshaping markets, challenging governance models, inspiring new industries and transforming others—from gaming to biopharma. It's also rewriting the nature of work, as people in many fields start using AI-powered "copilots." Sovereign AI encompasses both physical and data infrastructures. The latter includes sovereign foundation models, such as large language models, developed by local teams and trained on local datasets to promote inclusiveness with specific dialects, cultures and practices. For example, speech AI models can help preserve, promote and revitalize indigenous languages. And LLMs aren't just for teaching AIs human languages, but for writing software code, protecting consumers from financial fraud, teaching robots physical skills and much more.




In addition, as artificial intelligence and accelerated computing become increasingly critical tools for combating climate change, boosting energy efficiency and protecting against cybersecurity threats, sovereign AI has a pivotal role to play in equipping every nation to bolster its sustainability efforts.

Factoring In AI Factories
Comprising new, essential infrastructure for AI production are "AI factories," where data comes in and intelligence comes out. These are next-generation data centers that host advanced, full-stack accelerated computing platforms for the most computationally intensive tasks. Nations are building up domestic computing capacity through various models. Some are procuring and operating sovereign AI clouds in collaboration with state-owned telecommunications providers or utilities. Others are sponsoring local cloud partners to provide a shared AI computing platform for public- and private-sector use. "The AI factory will become the bedrock of modern economies across the world," NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in a recent media Q&A.

Sovereign AI Efforts Underway
Nations around the world are already investing in sovereign AI.

Since 2019, NVIDIA's AI Nations initiative has helped countries spanning every region of the globe to build sovereign AI capabilities, including ecosystem enablement and workforce development, creating the conditions for engineers, developers, scientists, entrepreneurs, creators and public sector officials to pursue their AI ambitions at home.

France-based Scaleway, a subsidiary of the iliad Group, is building Europe's most powerful cloud-native AI supercomputer. The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD comprises 127 DGX H100 systems, representing 1,016 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected by NVIDIA NVLink technology and the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform. NVIDIA DGX systems also include NVIDIA AI Enterprise software for secure, supported and stable AI development and deployment.



Swisscom Group, majority-owned by the Swiss government, recently announced its Italian subsidiary, Fastweb, will build Italy's first and most powerful NVIDIA DGX-powered supercomputer—also using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software—to develop the first LLM natively trained in the Italian language.

With these NVIDIA technologies and its own cloud and cybersecurity infrastructures, Fastweb plans to launch an end-to-end system with which Italian companies, public-administration organizations and startups can develop generative AI applications for any industry.

The government of India has also announced sovereign AI initiatives promoting workforce development, sustainable computing and private-sector investment in domestic compute capacity. India-based Tata Group, for example, is building a large-scale AI infrastructure powered by the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, while Reliance Industries will develop a foundation LLM tailored for generative AI and trained on the diverse languages of the world's most populous nation. NVIDIA is also working with India's top universities to support and expand local researcher and developer communities.



Japan is going all in with sovereign AI, collaborating with NVIDIA to upskill its workforce, support Japanese language model development, and expand AI adoption for natural disaster response and climate resilience. These efforts include public-private partnerships that are incentivizing leaders like SoftBank Corp. to collaborate with NVIDIA on building a generative AI platform for 5G and 6G applications as well as a network of distributed AI factories.

Finally, Singapore is fostering a range of sovereign AI programs, including by partnering with NVIDIA to upgrade its National Super Computer Center, or NSCC, with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. In addition, Singtel, a leading communications services provider building energy-efficient AI factories across Southeast Asia, is accelerated by NVIDIA Hopper architecture GPUs and NVIDIA AI reference architectures.

Read more about sovereign AI and its transformative potential.

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[Onasi]

Isn’t “sovereign AI” and “expressly tied to hardware designed by an American company” sort of by default oxymoronic?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Deja Vu

Jensen Huang Believes That Every Country Needs Sovereign AI

Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Monday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. Huang, who spoke as part of a fireside chat with the UAE's Minister of AI, His Excellency Omar Al Olama, described sovereign...

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[thesmokingman]

Isn’t “sovereign AI” and “expressly tied to hardware designed by an American company” sort of by default oxymoronic?

It's just an aside to his main point which is buy moar Nvidia bro!

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

"Shut up and give us more money!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!"

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

"Nvidia calls on the world to give them money"...that's how i read it

Informal Survey: Who here agrees that Nvidia should be broken up immediately (in the sense that theyre a monopoly)?

 

[Space Lynx]

Imagine what the USA would have been like in 2013 if Edward Snowden's program he ran had the power of AI vs just Meta data scraping... lmao talk about 1984 baby

edit: oh shit, my comment just sold them on the idea LMAO jk

 

[kondamin]

Imagine what the USA would have been like in 2013 if Edward Snowden's program he ran had the power of AI vs just Meta data scraping... lmao talk about 1984 baby

edit: oh shit, my comment just sold them on the idea LMAO jk

What gives you the idea they stopped doing what they were doing after Snowden warned us about things.
For some reason those people still dare to call Assange a traitor even though he isn't a citizen and did nothing wrong.

 

[Space Lynx]

What gives you the idea they stopped doing what they were doing after Snowden warned us about things.
For some reason those people still dare to call Assange a traitor even though he isn't a citizen and did nothing wrong.

I never said or implied it did end. No one will ever know either way.

 

[LabRat 891]

Not one dictionary definition of "Sovereign" seems like a good thing, (as an adjective) applied to AI

adjective​

1. Self-governing; independent.
2. Having supreme rank or power.
3. Paramount; supreme.
4. Of superlative strength or efficacy.
5. Unmitigated.

Sounds to me like nVidia aught to change their name to Cyberdyne. Because, "Sovereign AI" spells out Skynet (as depicted).

 

[Onasi]

@LabRat 891
Last time “Sovereign” and “AI” were linked, phrases like “rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh”, “you cannot even grasp the nature of our existence” and “your words are as empty as your future” were used. I am not sure that this is a cool selling point here, Jensen.

 

[Space Lynx]

@LabRat 891
Last time “Sovereign” and “AI” were linked, phrases like “rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh”, “you cannot even grasp the nature of our existence” and “your words are as empty as your future” were used. I am not sure that this is a cool selling point here, Jensen.

well we don't need to worry as long as no one hooks up an advanced AI to a robotics making factory, but to completely honest with you I am surprised the military has not yet made a factory that is robots making other robots yet. I think China is getting close to something like that, this was in 2018, so I can only imagine what is possible now...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/the-worlds-first-humanless-warehouse-is-run-only-by-robots.html

 

[trsttte]

Hi,
Deja Vu

Jensen Huang Believes That Every Country Needs Sovereign AI

Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Monday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. Huang, who spoke as part of a fireside chat with the UAE's Minister of AI, His Excellency Omar Al Olama, described sovereign...

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Yeah, this is the more official press release after Jensen discussion in the UAE. I'm surprised they wrote this:

developed by local teams and trained on local datasets to promote inclusiveness with specific dialects, cultures and practices

As someone in the previous thread concluded, the only point of this is guaranteeing opressive regimes - like in the UAE where Jensen first mentioned this - can rest easy with their own walled versions of AI that will not give answers contrary to what the regime wants, like women should have equal rights and not need to cover their heads as a basic example.

 

[Why_Me]

As someone in the previous thread concluded, the only point of this is guaranteeing opressive regimes - like in the UAE where Jensen first mentioned this - can rest easy with their own walled versions of AI that will not give answers contrary to what the regime wants, like women should have equal rights and not need to cover their heads as a basic example.

Sounds like Google Gemini.

 

[mama]

He really is quite the opportunistic salesman... Drum up competition between nations for products his company sells. Bravo.

 

[Denver]

It's more like: "Throw more money at us, please! Keep it green!"

 

[Wirko]

We will also offer pre-packaged AI models for running an entire government. All three branches as default. Depending on country population size, S, M and L subscription plans will be available, with prices starting as low as $100,000/mo (with promotional discount included).

 

[Space Lynx]

We will also offer pre-packaged AI models for running an entire government. All three branches as default. Depending on country population size, S, M and L subscription plans will be available, with prices starting as low as $100,000/mo (with promotional discount included).

Robot Peacekeeper package, 400k with a side of dystopia ice cream

 

[Sabotaged_Enigma]

Strongly opposed.
Currently AI has already created all this mess and tonnes of rubbish contents on the Internet. I'd say it won't be long till regulations and limitations on AI would come out.

 

[SJZL 2.0]

On second thought, seems like Nvidia wants to gain more investment for the sake of the $.

 

[Garrus]

NVIDA: Waste tax dollars on us!

we get it

 

[Bwaze]

That's just despicable.

 

[LabRat 891]

NVIDA: Waste tax dollars on us!

we get it

good bills can get passed, not bad ones, it isn't a bad thing that things are not getting passed

Spoiler: snip

Things are getting passed.

Just last week in a bi-partisan vote they shot down an amendment to a spending bill.

The amendment was to end earmarks (aka pork, local federal $$ added by individual reps with influence) from being added to bills unrelated to the pork being added.

The reason most stated for shooting the amendment down was that it had no chance of passing without the pork.

Then, they passed the spending bill with a bi-partisan vote. $460B.

They're expected to do more of the same next week.

As long as there's more pork.

This is what's making it tough to even discuss these kinds of Technology Happenings
-it's all directly-entwined with 'politics'.

IMO, It's only going to get worse on the AI/MI front. It's been made clear that, "National(ized) AI" systems are not just coming, they're openly being courted.
Not to mention the seemingly-verboten topic of the US politik influencing court outcomes in legal battles of AI/MI-centric IPs.

Seems like every 'big player' (old and new, alike) is lobbying and jockeying for position and favored status by whatever Authorities are involved.

TBQH, "can ya blame 'em?"
You or I would want to be 'picked the winner', too.

 

[Kohl Baas]

Sovereign: Assuming direct controll...

 

[atomek]

NVidia looks only at the money part. It is attempt to sell technology everywhere, regardless if that is posing security risk to USA.