alt Hacker NewsTo make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Sovereign AI is less about being able to build it from first principles and more about being able to tinker and modify what already exists. I can’t train a 30B model, but I can modify the weights of one. I can’t fab my own chips, but I can putter with the software that interfaces with them.
Sovereignty is lost when encryption hides your toys and attestation tells you “you may not”.
Look, China has sovereign AI because they can train on Huawei GPUs.
Estonian only has sovereign AI as long as they’re allowed to buy from Nvidia. Oh wait, they’re already restricted in what they can get.