Japan courts India, Malaysia to escape US-China AI duopoly

Japan is establishing artificial intelligence dialogue frameworks with India, Malaysia, and other like-minded countries to reduce reliance on top US and Chinese AI firms and promote domestic companies abroad, signaling a growing recognition of the need for cooperation in the increasingly competitive AI field. The outreach follows US restrictions on access to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models, highlighting risks of relying on foreign-developed AI. At a July summit, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to deepen AI cooperation on data centers and semiconductors.

Advertisement Japan courts India, Malaysia to escape US-China AI duopoly Fears over foreign software curbs have pushed Tokyo to pitch its own tech to Asian partners and others 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Japan https://www.scmp.com/topics/japan?module=inline&pgtype=article has been establishing dialogue frameworks for artificial intelligence https://www.scmp.com/topics/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&pgtype=article with like-minded countries and Global South partners to reduce reliance on top US and Chinese firms and promote domestic companies abroad. The outreach signals a growing recognition among those countries of the need for cooperation, rather than going it alone, to survive in the increasingly competitive field of AI. At home, Japan is seeking to foster its own domestic AI ecosystem. The move by the United States to restrict access https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3356990/us-blocks-foreign-access-anthropics-newest-ai-models-over-security-risks?module=inline&pgtype=article to AI developer Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models also highlighted the risks of relying on AI developed overseas.At a summit in early July between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi https://www.scmp.com/topics/sanae-takaichi?module=inline&pgtype=article and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi https://www.scmp.com/topics/narendra-modi?module=inline&pgtype=article , they agreed to deepen AI-related cooperation on data centres and semiconductors. They also pledged to hold dialogue on AI regularly, under a framework that began in April.Japan and France also held their first high-level AI talks in Paris in June to discuss cooperation, including with developing countries collectively called the Global South. Japanese firms such as major tech investor Softbank https://www.scmp.com/topics/softbank?module=inline&pgtype=article and leading Japan AI start-up Sakana AI K.K. were in attendance.Advertisement Select Voice Select Speed 1.00x