Patrick Perez

'International Perspective on GenAI Views from the Frontiers' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris

Rodrigo Liang, Patrick Perez, Michael Kratsios, Benjamin Cistecky, Chandra Khatri, Antoine Moyroud, Antoine Moreau

Global investors and governments are aggressively pursuing "sovereign AI" strategies, exemplified by Saudi Arabia's rumored $40 billion fund and the EU's push for a trust hub, to ensure cultural alignment and data control over large language models. Industry leaders like Samba Nova and Criterium are addressing critical technical barriers in low-resource environments by developing custom tokenizers and open-source models that overcome the fragmentation of non-Latin languages. This convergence of geopolitical ambition and technical innovation is expected to reshape the market into a diverse ecosystem of local champions and open science, moving beyond English-centric dominance to serve billions of new users.