Small Models and Smartphones Beat Sovereign AI GPU Clustersictworks.org/small-models-smar…For most of the past three yea...

Small Models and Smartphones Beat Sovereign AI GPU Clustersictworks.org/small-models-smar…For most of the past three years, the implicit assumption in sovereign AI debates has been that meaningful AI capability requires hyperscaler-class compute. That assumption was correct in 2023. It is wrong now.Two technical shifts have changed the geometry, and a third structural fact about the African device base decides whether the shifts can be put to work.#AI #SmallLanguageModels #Africa #smartphones #SovereignTech