Cohere's Nick Frosst on sovereign AI and Star Trek

CanCon Podcast by Douglas Soltys

Jun 16, 202601:02:33Technology

"If your entire technology is coming from a single country, and that country decides that every now and again they're going to shut off access to you, that's not a foundation you can build on." The US government just ord...

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