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Sahabat-AI
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Ooredoo bought 49 percent of Zankore for US$800 million. Indonesia supplies the power.
Ooredoo, Nokia and NVIDIA put a gigawatt of AI compute into Indonesia, and the terms of the deal say plainly who collects on it.
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Sovereign AI in Southeast Asia (running on Hangzhou’s open weights)
Google says close to seven in ten Southeast Asian prompts now arrive in a local language, and the region has its own models to match; read the model cards and the sovereign part turns out to be the last layer.
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Why SEA founders are building their own models (a worse one that answers beats a better one that can be switched off)
Indosat and GoTo just shipped Sahabat-AI, a small open model built for Bahasa Indonesia. The reason has less to do with performance than with who can switch the rented alternative off.