Nvidia Founder Jensen Huang: Sovereign AI Investment Thriving Worldwide, Artificial Intelligence as Nations’ Pillar
Huang Renxun, in an interview with Wired, discussed his intensive travels around the world in the past year and Nvidia’s promotion of Sovereign AI globally. During the interview, Huang was in Bangkok, Thailand, where he would meet with fifty-six startup teams in a single day, experiencing the city’s vibrant entrepreneurial atmosphere. He mentioned that he attended Rudy International, an international school in Thailand, when he was five years old, and now he feels a sense of familiarity returning to Thailand.
Huang Renxun specifically mentioned that his visit to Thailand allowed him to fully appreciate their understanding of the importance of Sovereign AI and the realization that AI data is a part of a nation. It can utilize social and cultural knowledge through AI cloud databases, generative AI, and big data analysis, benefiting various fields and contributing to the people of the country.
What is Sovereign AI?
Sovereign Artificial Intelligence refers to a country developing AI infrastructure through hardware and software equipment, data, labor, and telecommunications networks. Investing in Sovereign AI allows for the simultaneous control of data and the development of applications in transportation, communication, business, entertainment, healthcare, and other areas. Many countries and state-owned telecom operators around the world have collaborated to develop AI cloud databases, fully utilizing AI data in education, healthcare, law, financial technology, and other application areas.
Sovereign AI can promote cultural and linguistic communication and exchange
Sovereign AI encompasses the infrastructure of physical and data databases. Development teams can train large-scale language models on AI databases, helping people who speak different dialects communicate and increasing inclusivity among different ethnic groups.
Since 2019, NVIDIA has been promoting the AI Nations program worldwide, supporting the development of AI ecosystems and employee education and training.
Countries worldwide are investing in Sovereign AI
Scaleway, headquartered in France, is building Europe’s most powerful cloud-native AI supercomputer. Swisscom Group, controlled by the Swiss government, recently announced the construction of Italy’s first NVIDIA DGX-powered supercomputer in collaboration with its Italian subsidiary, Fastweb.
The Indian government has also announced the Sovereign AI plan to promote labor development. Tata Group is building large-scale AI infrastructure supported by the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchip.
Singapore is nurturing a series of Sovereign AI projects, including upgrading the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. NVIDIA Hopper architecture GPUs are also used to accelerate operations for Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel).
Japan is also fully committed to developing Sovereign AI, collaborating with NVIDIA to support the development of large-scale Japanese LLM models and enhancing natural disaster defense through AI. SoftBank and NVIDIA are working together to establish generative AI platforms for 5G and 6G, as well as distributed AI networks.
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