Topic hub

Taiwan

A topic hub for Taiwan's sovereign data, public compute, semiconductor leverage, and localized model work.

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AI models and infrastructure

Language models, compute layers, chips, and the infrastructure choices shaping capability across the region.

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AI companies and leadership

Profiles, executive context, and company strategy for the organizations and people shaping AI execution across Asia.

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AI ethics and social impact

How AI intersects with governance, public trust, civil society, and social consequences.

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AI investment and partnerships

Funding rounds, alliances, strategic tie-ups, and the capital layer behind AI expansion.

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AI policy and state strategy

Policy moves, government coordination, and state-led AI programs across Asian markets.

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Applied AI deployment

Where AI is moving from models into operations, products, and sector-level deployment.

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Thailand

A topic hub for Thailand's governance tooling, Thai-language models, public pilots, and adoption signals.

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China

Archive entries tied to Chinese AI policy, firms, infrastructure, and state strategy.

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East Asia

2 archive entries tied to East Asia, including Sailor2: Advancing Inclusive Multilingual Large Language Models for Southeast Asia.

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External context

Contextual pieces that shape how Asia's AI landscape is interpreted alongside wider global developments.

Country briefing

Taiwan

Use this briefing for Taiwan’s sovereign-data stack, national compute, semiconductor leverage, and localized models.

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Thailand

Start here for Thailand’s governance tooling, Thai-language models, public-sector pilots, and adoption signals.

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China

Start here for China’s AI policy stack, compute constraints, major companies, and strategic posture.

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Hong Kong

Use this briefing for Hong Kong’s compute buildout, finance-sector AI rollout, public deployment, and Greater Bay Area role.

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India

Use this briefing for IndiaAI Mission, shared compute, multilingual infrastructure, and applied AI deployment.

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Indonesia

Start here for Indonesia’s roadmap status, sovereign infrastructure push, local-language models, and state-capacity buildout.

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Japan

Use this briefing for Japan’s governance model, research depth, industrial adoption, and sovereign-compute push.

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Malaysia

Start here for Malaysia’s NAIO buildout, governance tooling, talent push, and commercialization agenda.

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Singapore

Use this briefing for Singapore’s national AI strategy, governance stack, research infrastructure, and workforce buildout.

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South Korea

Start here for South Korea’s sovereign-AI push, industrial scale, compute buildout, and policy execution.

Directory

AI compute in Asia

A comparison page for AI compute in Asia, including national compute access, shared GPU programs, domestic chips, and public infrastructure models.

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Sovereign AI

A cross-market page for comparing how different Asian governments define and operationalize sovereign AI.

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AI governance

A comparison page for how different markets balance innovation, coordination, oversight, and public trust in AI governance.

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China vs South Korea AI

A comparison page for the two most active near-term traffic clusters on the site: China’s scale-first buildout and South Korea’s sovereign-AI acceleration push.

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Multilingual models

A comparison page for multilingual models, national language priorities, and the institutions building them.

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Robotics and embodied AI

A cross-market page for the regions where robotics, industrial AI, and embodied systems already have strong institutional support.

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AI in China 2026

A recurring state-of page for China’s AI system this year across policy, domestic models, chips, cloud, and industrial deployment.

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Asian AI 2026

A top-layer page for the main strategic pattern across policy, companies, infrastructure, and deployment in Asia this year.

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Sovereign AI quarterly

A recurring page for the quarter-by-quarter movement in sovereign AI programs across Asia.

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AI in South Korea 2026

A recurring state-of page for South Korea’s AI posture this year across sovereign AI, platform companies, industrial deployment, and alliances.

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Country watchlists

A recurring page that compresses the next signals worth watching across the main country briefings.

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National compute tracker

A tracker page for public compute, domestic chip programs, cloud infrastructure, and strategic GPU access.

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AI policy timeline

A tracker page for policy moves, state coordination changes, and governance milestones across Asian AI ecosystems.

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China AI policy tracker

A dedicated tracker for China’s AI policy sequence, coordination moves, and institutional changes.

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Funding and partnerships tracker

A tracker page for major AI funding rounds, alliances, and strategic tie-ups across Asian markets.

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Public-sector deployment tracker

A tracker page for government and civic AI systems, including public services, safety systems, and state-linked deployments.

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South Korea sovereign AI tracker

A dedicated tracker for South Korea’s sovereign-AI movement across state ambition, national models, alliances, public programs, and industrial deployment.

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Sovereign model tracker

A tracker page for national-model efforts, domestic champions, and sovereign-language-model programs across Asia.

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Public-sector AI

A sector page for AI inside government, public services, civic systems, and state-linked operating environments.

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Semiconductors and compute

A sector page for chips, compute stacks, cloud capacity, and strategic hardware constraints.

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Healthcare

A sector page for AI in diagnostics, hospital systems, preventative care, and clinical-adjacent workflows.

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Manufacturing and robotics

A sector page for the markets where AI is entering factories, robots, autonomous systems, and industrial workflows.

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Finance

A sector page for AI in banking, capital markets, fintech infrastructure, and high-trust financial workflows.

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Alibaba

A company hub for Alibaba's chip, capital, cloud, and ecosystem role inside China's AI buildout.

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Cambricon

The company hub to use when you want China's domestic AI-chip story anchored in one enterprise.

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Moonshot AI

Leadership, funding, model strategy, and China context for one of the clearest company stories in the current Chinese model race.

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Kakao

A company hub for reading South Korea's partnership logic, distribution assets, and platform adaptation through Kakao.

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Naver

South Korea's platform-scale AI strategy through the lens of Naver's models, services, and ecosystem position.

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Preferred Networks

A Japan company hub focused on industrial AI, algorithmic depth, and domestic capability formation.

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SK Telecom

The telecom-and-infrastructure angle on South Korea's applied AI buildout.

Report

The Tainan Cloud Centre: Computational Bedrock for Taiwan's Sovereign AI and Strategic Technological Autonomy

The inauguration of the new national cloud computing centre in Tainan on December 12, 2025, represents a formal and profound strategic shift in Taiwan's national.

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Atsuko Iwasaki

A Japan people hub for the robotics and AI-driven systems layer of the archive.

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Bae Kyung-hoon

A people hub for reading South Korea's long-horizon AI ambition through a named architect figure.

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Chen Tianshi

The people hub to use when China's domestic chip ambition needs a named founder-level anchor.

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Ha Jung-woo

The South Korea people hub to use when sovereign AI, public ambition, and technical leadership converge in one figure.

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Mitesh Khapra

A people hub for India's language-AI depth and institutional research capacity.

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Songyee Yoon

A people hub for the capital and leadership side of South Korea's AI ecosystem.

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Xiao Hong

A people hub for reading Manus and the wider Moonshot-linked ecosystem through one named operator.

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Yejin Choi

A people hub for one of the most recognizable South Korea-linked figures in frontier AI research and public visibility.