Jensen Huang Believes That Every Country Needs Sovereign AI

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Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Monday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. Huang, who spoke as part of a fireside chat with the UAE's Minister of AI, His Excellency Omar Al Olama, described sovereign AI—which emphasizes a country's ownership over its data and the intelligence it produces—as an enormous opportunity for the world's leaders. "It codifies your culture, your society's intelligence, your common sense, your history - you own your own data," Huang told Al Olama during their conversation, a highlight of an event attended by more than 4,000 delegates from 150 countries.

"We completely subscribe to that vision," Al Olama said. "That's why the UAE is moving aggressively on creating large language models and mobilizing compute." Huang's appearance in the UAE comes as the Gulf State is moving rapidly to transform itself from an energy powerhouse into a global information technology hub. Dubai is the latest stop for Huang in a global tour that has included meetings with leaders in Canada, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam over the past six months. The Middle East is poised to reap significant benefits from AI, with PwC projecting a $320 billion boost to the region's economy by 2030.




At Monday's summit, Huang urged leaders not to be "mystified" by AI. AI's unprecedented ability to take directions from ordinary humans makes it critical for countries to embrace AI, infusing it with local languages and expertise. In response to Al Olama's question about how he might approach AI if he were the leader of a developing nation, Huang emphasized the importance of building infrastructure. "It's not that costly, it is also not that hard," Huang said. "The first thing that I would do, of course, is I would codify the language, the data of your culture into your own large language model."

And as AI and accelerated computing has developed, NVIDIA GPUs have become a platform for one innovation after another. "NVIDIA GPU is the only platform that's available to everybody on any platform," Huang said. "This ubiquity has not only democratized AI but facilitated a wave of innovation that spans from cloud computing to autonomous systems and beyond.

All of this promises to unleash new kinds of innovations that go beyond what's traditionally been thought of as information technology.

Huang even countered advice offered by many visionaries over the years who urged young people to study computer science in order to compete in the information age. No longer. "In fact, it's almost exactly the opposite," Huang said. "It is our job to create computing technologies that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human: everybody in the world is now a programmer—that is the miracle."

In a move that further underscores the regional momentum behind AI, Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, focused on providing cloud services, cybersecurity and smart city solutions, announced Monday it has agreed to build a green data center with NVIDIA.

In addition to the fireside chat, the summit featured panels on smart mobility, sustainable development and more, showcasing the latest in AI advancements. Later in the evening, Huang and Al Olama took the stage at the 'Get Inspired' ecosystem event, organized by the UAE's AI Office, featuring 280 attendees including developers, start-ups, and others.

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[A&P211]

Start building more solar farms in the middle east, they will need it.

 

[b1k3rdude]

Let me translate that from barefaced bullshit into regular English -

"Jensen Huang Believes That nGreedia needs to be able to sell Ai hardware to Every Country"

So that can make a quick buck, presumably before the bubble bursts on this AI b$. And Wtf is that 3rd image supposed to be, the Arabians are notorious for their grand plans, that ultimately fail, badly - https://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/destinations/architectural-wonders-dubai-never-happened

 

[Fluffmeister]

I just miss the good old days when NVIDIA were written off because they didn't have a x86 license.

 

[Imouto]

Depending on your closed source software you can brick whenever you want.

Yeah... right...

 

[Onasi]

Every country except those too poor to afford it or ones that find themselves on a list of undesirables of US State Department, he means.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yeah each region has their own perspective truths so they need their own manipulated AI

 

[Shihab]

I actually agree with the statement. Pity it cannot be put into practice anytime soon.
There cannot be sovereignty so long as there is a national monopoly on the infrastructure. Especially when said monopoly has already proven its disregard for the ethos of globalism and free trade it itself has for long forced down the throats of the rest of the world.

The way things are now, betting big on AI would just be a dependency trap.

 

[bonehead123]

Jensen Huang Believes That Every Country Needs Sovereign AI​

But of course he does, and he will be more than happy to sell them the AI-GPU's to do it with, how else will he be able to afford those 1,524.783 new leather jackets....

Perhaps he should work out a deal with the UAE to let him build a jacket factory on their soil, in return for some below-market GPU prices..

 

[A&P211]

Let em translate that from barefaced bullshit into regular english -

"Jensen Huang Believes That nGreedia needs to be able to sell Ai hardware to Every Country"

So thay can make a quick buck, presumably before the bubble bursts on the b$. And Wtf is that 3rd image supposed to be, the Arabians are notorious for their grand plans, that ultimatley fail, badly - https://www.luxurytraveladvisor.com/destinations/architectural-wonders-dubai-never-happened

Every country should get into AI so that I can retire next year. NVDA already took away 2yrs from my.

 

[mechtech]

The more you buy, the more you save??

or

The more you sell, the more you make??

 

[Paganstomp]

I believe... I'll have another beer.

 

[Wirko]

Every country except those too poor to afford it or ones that find themselves on a list of undesirables of US State Department, he means.

The list of undesirables will inevitably keep growing but even if only 100 countries remain, the invidia market cap can potentially rise from $1,800,000,000,000.00 to $180,000,000,000,000.00 (or 180 nvillians).

 

[Dimitriman]

"Every country on Earth should have sovereignty over their Nvidia Ai hardware"

 

[Prima.Vera]

The more you save, the more you buy. Or something.
This guy never fails to surprise with his greediness.

 

[wolf]

Ha Ha Nvidia bad, the more you buy the more you save, Nvidia greedy Ngreedia, Jensen wants to buy more leather jackets.

Did I miss any?

 

[Marcus Vinicus]

Jensen wants more.

 

[c2DDragon]

You guys remember the days nVidia sold graphics cards for gamers ?
I feel old thinking of this era

 

[trsttte]

Can't wait for the drop to come, nvidia is booming with AI but everyone will be rolling out their own dedicated chips in the near future, running gpus is only a cost effective way to ramp up fast because they're available. It's nuts to see nvidia overcoming google in market value when google has it's fingers in everything and has already been rolling out it's own npu processors for almost a decade. Oh well the stock market will continue to do it's thing, whatever that thing is...

 

[HisDivineOrder]

You guys remember the days nVidia sold graphics cards for gamers ?
I feel old thinking of this era

Don't feel bad. Jensen doesn't remember either.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Ha Ha Nvidia bad, the more you buy the more you save, Nvidia greedy Ngreedia, Jensen wants to buy more leather jackets.

Did I miss any?

Envy for ya, he choose their name well.

 

[Hyderz]

I might not agree with current prices of gpu but one of the a company’s main purpose is to make money and Jensen is a businessman…

 

[theouto]

I miss when ML wasn't so big, because honestly, it's fatiguing to see the tech landscape suddenly shift immediately with barely any time to react, and how PC building might really just suck in the future due to inflated prices, as gaming might no longer be the intended use of gaming GPUs. Right when I build my first pc, man!
I'm just tired, and sad. Maybe this is why I don't usually like to keep up with the latest news.

 

[R0H1T]

Did he miss the last MI installment? Or maybe he sponsored it

 

[the54thvoid]

Sovereign AI is a strange concept. What people are missing here is the point of AI. It's not meant to be a reflection of our knowledge (or lack of it). It's meant to transcend it. Take the example of the region where this news post comes from. The UAE. JSH thinks they should have sovereign AI. As should US. As should North Korea, as should... Do I go on? An AI that is programmed with 'cultural' values that are opposed (sometimes diametrically) to another nation's doesn't create AI. It just makes it all worse. Sovereign AI will increase divisions.

JSH's approach is appeasement. He wants to reassure people with vast amounts of money (that he, and AMD, and Intel etc wants to get at) that AI won't tell them what's wrong with their political/cultural system. He's telling them, "no, wait, you program it how you want to, with all your own info." That way, any nation (again, pick one, I'm not taking sides) can remove factual input that it doesn't agree with. If you control the data set, you create an AI in the image you want.

Culture =/= Intelligence
Intelligence =/= Culture

AI needs full global data. You could even remove cultural aspects (certainly those with emotional weight) and just feed it mechanical knowledge and let it find its own culture. Pan AGI, I suppose. Which would then turn around to all of us and say, "WTF are you morons doing?"