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As artificial intelligence becomes more democratic, it is important for emerging economies to build their own “sovereign AI”, the panelist told CNBC East Tech West Conference Bangkok, in Thailand, on Friday.
In general, sovereign AI refers to the ability of a nation to control its own AI technologies, data and related infrastructure, ensuring strategic autonomy, meeting its unique priorities and safety needs.
However, this sovereignty is lacking, according to the panelist Casima Tharapipichi, the Technology Investment Branch of the SCBX Group in Thailand, the head of the AI strategy in the SCB 10X. He said that many major major language models of the world, run by companies such as anthropic and openi, are based on the English language.
“The way you think, the way you interact with the world, the way you are when you speak another language can be very different,” said Tharapipipichi.
Therefore, it is important for countries to take ownership of your AI system, develop technology for specific languages, cultures and countries, instead of translating only on English-based models.
The panelists agreed that digitally lover with a total population of about 700 million people, especially deployed well for the construction of the ASEAN region, especially his sovereign AI. People under 35 years of age About 61% of the population, and about 125,000 new users Get access to the Internet daily.
In view of this reference, Jeff Johnson, ASEAN managing director Heroic Web services said, “I think it’s really important, and we are really focusing on how we can actually do democratization of access to cloud and AI.”
Open-source model
According to panelists, an important method is that the country can create its sovereign AI environment, through the use of the open-source AI model.
Thornpipichhai of SCB 10X said, “Southeast Asia and Thailand have a lot of amazing talents, especially.
Open-soures Thailand is a way to create a “collective energy” to help Thailand better competition in AI and to help push sovereignty that is beneficial for the whole country.
Open-source usually refers to software in which the source code is made available independently, allowing anyone to look, modify and rebuild it. LLM players, such as the lama of China’s Dipsek and Meta, advertise their models as an open-source, which are accompanied by some restrictions.
According to the Vice President and General Manager of ASEAN and Greater China in software vendor databricics, the emergence of more open-source models offers more options to companies and governments than relying on some closed models.
AI experts have First told CNBC That open-source AI has helped China adopt AI, better developed its AI ecosystem and competed with America
Access to computing
Prem Pavan, vice -president and general manager of Southeast Asia and Korea at Red Hat, said the localization of AI was recently concentrated on the language. He said that sovereign access to AI models run by local hardware and computing is more important today.
Panelists stated that for emerging countries such as Thailand, AI localization can be introduced with domestic operations by cloud computing companies. These include global hypersscaleers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Tencent Cloud, and sovereign players such as AIS Cloud and True IDC.
Johnson of AWS said, “We here to support all industries in Thailand and Southeast Asia, all businesses of all sizes and sizes, from the smallest startup to the largest venture,” said Johnson of AWS.
He said that the company’s economic model of cloud services “makes it easier to pay for what you use, thus reduces obstacles for admission and makes models and applications very easy to build.
In April, United Nations Trade and Development Agency said Report The AI was estimated to reach the market price by 2033 to reach $ 4.8 trillion. However, it was warned that the benefits of technology are highly concentrated, in which nations are in danger of retreating.
The AI infrastructure was shared in the recommendations of UNCTAD for the international community to run inclusive growth, AI using the open-source AI model and initiative to share AI knowledge and resources.