Some states are rejecting a binary choice between Silicon Valley’s closed APIs and Beijing’s centralized infrastructure by building open, modular national AI stacks. This 'infrastructural nonalignment' treats AI sovereignty as authorship—choosing local data, models, and rules—while still engaging global flows of talent and compute.
— It reframes AI geopolitics as a multi‑polar standards and infrastructure competition where mid‑tier countries can shape rules, dependencies, and innovation pathways.
Benjamin Bratton
2025.09.30
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Bratton calls for a European 'Eurostack' and criticizes dependence on U.S./China platforms, aligning with the notion that states should build open, modular, sovereign AI stacks rather than choosing between Silicon Valley and Beijing. He frames this as a hemispheric infrastructure choice, not merely app‑layer regulation.
Nathan Gardels
2025.09.26
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The article explicitly advances 'infrastructural non‑alignment' and 'AI sovereignty as authorship,' using Vietnam’s plan to build its own language models, cloud and training data as a concrete example of rejecting both Silicon Valley and Beijing stacks.
Dang Nguyen
2025.09.16
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Vietnam’s FPT announced an open core tech stack, a national sandbox aiming for a locally trained GPT‑style model, and AI‑in‑schools commitments, explicitly positioning a 'third path.'