Who's Actually Building Frontier AI Outside the US and China?

Only two countries are at the AI frontier right now — and everyone else is training models for entirely different reasons. This episode works through the real numbers: Mistral's trillion-parameter preview scoring 38 against a frontier of 58, the UAE's fully open K2 Horizon, Korea's government-run elimination rounds, India's from-scratch Sarvam models, and more. Along the way we untangle why older index scores make sovereign models look far stronger than they are, and why "sovereign AI" means something different in Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Paris, and New Delhi. If you've ever wondered who's actually close to the frontier and who's building for language coverage, data residency, or procurement rules instead, this is the episode.

Episode 6039 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6039 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/460947)