{"id":20383,"date":"2025-10-09T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/governments-are-spending-billions-on-their-own-sovereign-ai-technologies-is-it-a-big-waste-of-money\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:37:14","slug":"governments-are-spending-billions-on-their-own-sovereign-ai-technologies-is-it-a-big-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/governments-are-spending-billions-on-their-own-sovereign-ai-technologies-is-it-a-big-waste-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Governments are spending billions on their own \u2018sovereign\u2019 AI technologies \u2013 is it a big waste of money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap<\/p>\n

In Singapore, a government-funded artificial intelligence model can converse in 11 languages<\/a>, from Bahasa Indonesia to Lao. In Malaysia, ILMUchat<\/a>, built by a local construction conglomerate, boasts that it \u201cknows which Georgetown you\u2019re referring to\u201d \u2013 that is, the capital of Penang and not the private university in the US. Meanwhile, Switzerland\u2019s Apertus, unveiled in September<\/a>, understands when to use the Swiss German \u201css\u201d and not the German-language character \u201c\u00df\u201d.<\/p>\n

Around the world, language models like these are part of an AI arms race worth hundreds of billions of dollars<\/a> mostly driven by a few powerful companies in the US and China. As giants such as OpenAI, Meta and Alibaba<\/a> plough vast sums into developing increasingly powerful models, middle powers and developing countries are watching the landscape carefully, and sometimes placing their own, expensive bets.<\/p>\n

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\nMany US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap
\nIn Singapore, a government-funded artificial intelligence model can converse in 11 languages, from Bahasa Indonesia to Lao. In Malaysia, ILMUchat, built by a local construction conglomerate, boasts that it \u201cknows which Georgetown you\u2019re referring to\u201d \u2013 that is, the capital of Penang and not the private university in the US. Meanwhile, Switzerland\u2019s Apertus, unveiled in September, understands when to use the Swiss German \u201css\u201d and not the German-language character \u201c\u00df\u201d.
\nAround the world, language models like these are part of an AI arms race worth hundreds of billions of dollars mostly driven by a few powerful companies in the US and China. As giants such as OpenAI, Meta and Alibaba plough vast sums into developing increasingly powerful models, middle powers and developing countries are watching the landscape carefully, and sometimes placing their own, expensive bets. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap In Singapore, a government-funded artificial intelligence model can converse in 11 languages, from Bahasa Indonesia to Lao. In Malaysia, ILMUchat, built by a local construction conglomerate, boasts that it \u201cknows which Georgetown you\u2019re referring to\u201d \u2013 that is, the capital …<\/p>\n

Governments are spending billions on their own \u2018sovereign\u2019 AI technologies \u2013 is it a big waste of money?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}