Post by Akira Murata

Economist | AI Literacy Trainer/AI Conductor | AI in Education | Development Economics | Migration & Remittances | Asian Economies (Japan & ASEAN) | Impact Evaluation | Causal Inference | Machine Learning

Japan just bet ¥1 trillion that it can own its AI — but not the chips underneath it. 44 companies. ~27,500 NVIDIA GPUs. A foundation model built not for chatbots, but for factory floors. The part most coverage missed: that ¥1 trillion is a ceiling subject to annual review, not a cheque. And June's 19-day export-control shutdown of Anthropic's frontier models — restored only partially, only for one country — is precisely why Tokyo is moving now. What it means for anyone whose data can't leave the country 👇 #SovereignAI #Noetra #JapanAI #PhysicalAI #IndustrialPolicy #DataSovereignty #AIPolicy #AsiaBusiness

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