Azeem Azhar

And I think that's where, again, you see someone like Claude, with Anthropix Claude, being really, really good at one thing, which is,

I mean, it's a great generalist model and we use it a lot, but it's really good at code generation.

And therefore, it's much harder to unpick it from those particular workflows because people get used to it.

What's the best strategy for middling powers?

Ah, it's a good one.

I mean, I'm working on a project with some other people on this question.

They do need to establish at the very minimum some class of sovereign stack, but what that looks like varies country to country.

So you probably will see some mini lateral arrangements between companies that might be sort of formally tied together, like in Europe, in the European Union, or

Just our neighbors, and you're certainly seeing that in sub-Saharan Africa where you start to say, okay, what are the things we actually need at each stage and what can we share in terms of provisioning compute and provisioning the power and the data and the data governance that we might need and even the talent?

So there it's going to have to be collaboration.

But I think the really difficult question, and I don't think this necessarily shows up in the next year or two, is that that's only sovereignty by vibes.

Like it kind of feels like sovereignty.

It's not real sovereignty in the way that an international lawyer might think about it.

Because ultimately, you know, if you are building on the China stack, you're building on the US stack, one of these two countries can say,

Actually, we don't want to support you anymore.

And you don't have that lever of control then at that point.

But I think you can do quite a lot by building capabilities and just making your own capacity better.

It gives you more room at the bargaining table.

There's always a chance that something can happen.

You know, we live in a world of fat tails, right?