Technological Sovereignty
A strategic concept describing the capacity of a nation or region to maintain autonomous control over critical technology domains. In the AI era, technological sovereignty is closely intertwined with national sovereignty, and has become a rationale for government intervention in AI industries and supply chains.
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Technological sovereignty refers to a country's autonomous decision-making power over the R&D, deployment, standard-setting, and data flows of key technologies, reducing external dependence and preventing technology outflow from harming national security.
Open-source models lower the technical barrier, but model weights, training data and inference infrastructure remain highly concentrated, and open source does not automatically equal technological sovereignty.
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Technological sovereignty refers to a country's autonomous decision-making power over the R&D, deployment, standard-setting, and data flows of key technologies, reducing external dependence and preventing technology outflow from harming national security.
50%UnverifiedOpen-source models lower the technical barrier, but model weights, training data and inference infrastructure remain highly concentrated, and open source does not automatically equal technological sovereignty.
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