What is "Sovereign AI" that Huida CEO Huang Renxun calls the second wave of AI? Is Taiwan actively involved in this?

What is sovereign AI?

According to Yahoo News, Huang Renxun told the media as early as the end of last year that the world is experiencing a second wave of AI. He believes that from technology giants to AI startups and even the entire technology industry, they are the main drivers of the first wave; while the second wave of AI will be driven by governments, because they are beginning to realize that each country and region needs to establish Your own artificial intelligence, that is, Sovereign AI.

Generative AI set off a wave more than a year ago. It can not only help people avoid complicated routine work, but also write programs and quickly generate various types of creative content. However, it also brings about job losses, fabrication of fake news, etc. Problems, and even being used for criminal purposes such as fraud, have also made countries realize that this technology must be managed and regulated.

The practical goals of sovereign AI are:

Develop AI technology domestically and use national data and national languages ​​to train large-scale language models to create an AI model that is in line with national values.

Countries develop sovereign AI to avoid the impact of "cutting off supply"

The goal of sovereign AI is to develop the AI ​​industry to ensure that the country can keep key data, technology, expertise and infrastructure in its hands, reduce its dependence on other countries' AI technologies, and protect the country from various "supply cutoffs" influence and strengthen the country’s autonomy in the field of AI.

It was previously reported that OpenAI would terminate its API services to China because the United States hopes to prevent U.S. technology from assisting China in developing sophisticated technology and dominating the world by banning the trade of certain end-use AI and systems involving the use of specific amounts of computing power for training. market. It can be seen that the competition between China and the United States has extended to the AI ​​industry.

(China and the United States are competing to expand the AI ​​industry, and OpenAI has stopped providing API services to China)

The development of sovereign AI can not only enhance the economy, talent, and other industries that rely on high-tech industries, but can also provide security protection. This is like many companies using their own AI training models to prevent the leakage of company trade secrets. However, some people are worried that the development of sovereign AI may lead to the fuse of various disputes such as trade and intellectual property rights.

Taiwan’s most powerful AI supercomputer Taipei-1

In this wave of AI, in addition to joining forces with Huida to form a complete supply chain, does Taiwan have the ability to develop its own sovereign AI?

The generative AI service platform "Dago" launched by MediaTek (formally known as MediaTek DaVinci). Initially provided for internal use by MediaTek to improve productivity and ensure data security. Later, it developed into a generative AI service platform that can be imported by external enterprises. According to reports from Digital Times, an important feature of Dago is its ability to understand Traditional Chinese. It supports the Traditional Chinese large language model "MR BreeXe" developed by MediaTek Innovation Base, as well as other large language models. This enables Dago to understand and process up to 40,000 characters of Traditional Chinese. MR BreeXe was trained on the Taipei-1 supercomputer built by Huida in Taiwan.

"Taipei-1" is Taiwan's most powerful AI supercomputer. It combines artificial intelligence and digital twin computing. It was invested and built by Huida. It is located in the Kaohsiung Software Technology Park. In the recently announced ranking of the world's top 500 supercomputers, it ranks 1st in performance. At No. 38. After actively discussing with NVIDIA, the Ministry of Economic Affairs will provide part of the high-speed computing resources of "Taipei-1" free of charge to Taiwan's industry and academia for research and development use.

With the explosion of artificial intelligence, as the saying goes, computing power is national power, and sovereign AI will become the world’s biggest bargaining chip. It seems that Taiwan is also actively participating in this wave of AI!

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