If you’re not US or China, I don’t know how you sit back and become dependents on them for the intelligence that will define the future

You’d think it would be a national priority to have a strategy here
Of course, easier said than done - you need big $ and talent to compete with the frontier labs
The easiest first step is to build sovereign data centers and host the open weights models or post-trained versions - at least you own some form of the intelligence
The UAE and Saudi Arabia seems to be going this path and making moves towards training
The most impactful next step would be focusing on decentralized training
If you can’t build a cluster capable of training a capable model, decentralized training may be a viable option
Not for today, but as an option to hedge the risk of being locked out or priced out of the US and Chinese models if that day ever comes
Doing a deep dive on decentralized training with a report coming out soon
Let me know if there are any projects you want to see covered, I’ve got a pretty good list already but open to include others if they’re legit