Thursday
April 2
2026

Analysis: Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building With Frugal Models

By Rina Chandran

As big tech firms in the U.S. race to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on artificial intelligence, away from Silicon Valley, startups and researchers who cannot access the most advanced chips are adopting a more frugal approach — building smaller AI models on open-weight systems with fewer tokens — to meet the needs of populations with fewer resources.

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Source: Rest of World (link opens in a new window)

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Technology
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artificial intelligence, data, human rights, research, startups, sustainable business