The Region's Best "Sovereign" AI Model Is Built on Gemma and Licensed by Google
Vietnam has made national language models a strategic product. Southeast Asia's most developed answer ranks #4 of 55 — a...
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Vietnam has made national language models a strategic product. Southeast Asia's most developed answer ranks #4 of 55 — a...
Singapore's 20 May update to its National AI Strategy refreshes the priorities across its 10 enablers, adds four sector...
As AI agents move from experiments into business workflows, governance can no longer stay at the policy level. The next...
Singapore and Google ran AI agents against real government work for four months, on an air-gapped cloud, and published w...
Singapore's IMDA published Version 1.5 of its Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI on 20 May 2026 — a 51-page up...
Microsoft's State of Global AI Diffusion report shows 17.8% of the working-age population now uses AI globally, led by t...
Four Chinese AI labs — Z.ai, MiniMax, Moonshot, and DeepSeek — released open-weights coding models within 12 days, each...
Cohere and Aleph Alpha have merged with backing from the Canadian and German governments to create a "sovereign AI" alte...