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Global AI · Emerging markets
America built the AI frontier. China is building the on-ramp.
Why the next billion AI users will be won in Africa, Asia and Latin America by distribution — not benchmark supremacy.
Hinsley Njila11 pagesOpinion
“The contest in emerging markets will not be settled by which model tops a leaderboard in San Francisco or Hangzhou. It will be settled by which system delivers a useful, trusted answer — in the right language, on the device people actually have.”
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