India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance
… G42 declined to disclose the financial terms of the India deal or confirm who will own the hardware after installation. …
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India’s VCs are beating American investors at home
… Several crossover investors that aggressively chased Indian startup deals during the boom years have pulled back sharply since 2022. …
The Gulf has billions to spend on AI. It still needs Nvidia
… The deals give the Gulf chips that can run AI, but for a narrower set of tasks than those from Nvidia. …
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… By Rina Chandran Innovation India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware. …
China builds a rival satellite constellation as SpaceX goes public
… Spacesail’s playbook of state backing, non-Western markets, and government-level deals resembles that of BYD, the Chinese electric car maker that grew with billions in subsidies and overtook Tesla in global sales, Curcio said. …
Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech
… Plus, the AI race is going to be won on physical AI — robotics , autonomous systems, embodied intelligence — which requires hardware. Hardware needs supply chains. …
With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
… Kimi K3 offers those governments a way out. “An open, high-quality model like Kimi K3 does change the calculation for governments that have been investing heavily in hardware while paying for access to American models,” Mohammed Soliman, a senior fellow at Washington-based think tank Middle East In… …
AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse
… The high-performance hardware required for AI, such as GPUs and specialized servers, is advancing quickly. …
Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models
… The Soliga voice models use Raspberry Pi hardware that runs on the Linux open-source operating system. …
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley
… Over half the compute behind the IndiaAI Mission — the government program to build indigenous foundation models — sits on Yotta’s hardware . …