Miguel Afonso Caetano“The U.S. — and to some extent China — now has a potentially insurmountable lead in owning the world’s foundational AI models. That doesn’t mean other countries can’t develop their own robust AI ecosystems with fine-tuned technology built on top of those models. It does mean, however, that countries that do so will be increasingly dependent on a small number of American and Chinese firms. That leaves them vulnerable to shifting geopolitical winds and the risk that these companies might one day swallow their global competitors whole.
Even as global leaders and entrepreneurs outside the West scramble for some measure of self-determination by rushing to build their own “sovereign AI” ecosystems from scratch, their fate may be sealed.
“What we’re seeing [is] this kind of grandstanding bluster, like, ‘We can compete. We can build our own AI startup ecosystem,’ which doesn’t feel like it’s fully calling out the elephants in the room,” Kak said.
Just over three years on from the public release of ChatGPT, nearly every data point available about our AI era tells a startling story of geographic resource concentration.”
https://restofworld.org/2026/us-ai-investment-global-funding-gap/
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