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The building blocks of AI are data. Who it really belongs to is up for debate.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dromali.

Imagine if you could walk into one of the world's great libraries and leave with

whatever you wanted, any book, map, or photo, historical document.

Like forever, no questions asked.

Well, there's an argument that something like that

is happening to the digital data of nations.

In a lot of places, anyone can come along and scrape the internet

for the valuable data that is the backbone of AI. But what if raw data

generated in a particular country could be used to benefit not outside

interests but that country and its people. Some nations have started building their

own AI infrastructure to that end in a bit to secure their AI sovereignty.

And according to Venture Capitalist Phonod Kosa, the potential implications and opportunities

are huge.

These language models are trained in English,

but there's 13 Indian scripts.

Within that, there's probably a couple of hundred languages

or language variants. So the cultural context for these languages is different. We do

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