Within twenty years, every serious economy will have sovereign AI infrastructure, and the countries that do not will be dependent in a way that resembles how some countries today are dependent on imported energy. I will stake that claim. The national LLM framework we are building through Project Maestro, with the first deployment targeted at a Jamaican sovereign model, is a small-scale version of what will eventually be standard national infrastructure. The uncertainty is cost. Sovereign AI is expensive, and if the economics of frontier models continue to concentrate among a few providers, smaller countries may be locked out regardless of political intent.

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