Build or Rent: Should Malaysia Make Its Own AI or Spend on Using It?
Ep. 18

Build or Rent: Should Malaysia Make Its Own AI or Spend on Using It?

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Episode description

In this Friday special of our AI news podcast, Aiman, Mei Ling and Raj ask whether Malaysia should build its own AI models and infrastructure, or rent the best foreign ones and spend on adoption. Mei Ling leads a longer, reflective episode that ends with each host’s position, and with what workers, SME owners and students in Malaysia can do now.

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Also in this episode:

  • The June US order that took Anthropic’s two newest models offline for every customer.
  • India’s Sarvam and Mistral’s warning to Europe.
  • What model labs, data centres and AI training each mean for Malaysian jobs, including 4,053 projected data centre jobs from RM225.97 billion of investment.
  • Aleph Alpha’s pivot, Korea’s troubled national model project, Japan’s Fifth Generation project, Gaia-X and Proton’s deal with Geely.
  • What Big Technology, 80,000 Hours, Bloomberg’s Emerging, Lex Fridman and a16z said about sovereign AI.

Timestamps 0:04 The night two AI models were switched off 0:50 Meet the team 1:53 The case for building: language, data and control 6:24 What each path means for Malaysian jobs 11:09 The counter-case: Aleph Alpha, Korea, Fifth Generation, Gaia-X, Proton 15:03 A word from Hitower IT 15:50 What other podcasts say about sovereign AI, and what they miss 20:44 The Friday positions 24:30 One thing to do this weekend 25:08 See you tomorrow

Stories and sources

Standing thread: T1 Sovereignty.

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