Guido Appenzeller

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1,314 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 15 Jul

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The a16z Show · Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models · 24 May 2025 podcast

And I think it'll be a little bit the same thing, right?

If you want to

build industry in a particular country if you want to be able to export things, if you want to be able to drive development.

And if you want to harness the power that comes with that, you need the corresponding reserves.

And I mean I think AI data centers are a little bit like these oil reserves.

With the big difference being you can actually construct them themselves if you have the

necessary investment, uh, dollars and the willpower to do it.

But I think they will be the foundations for building all the layers on top that ultimately I think determine who wins this race.

I think the United States in AI right now has the world leadership.

That's an opportunity.

Hanging on to it won't be easy, as it is in every tech revolution.

Aaron

The world is not one place.

So I think complete centralization won't happen.

I think the leader is good.

Having strong allies that also have that technology is also very valuable.

So it's probably a balance of those that we're looking for.

I think I have probably a strong opinion on that.

I mean, I grew up in Germany, right?

So benefiting from the Marshall Plan and also sort of seeing how that pulled away Western Germany towards the United States and eventually Eastern Germany also towards the United States when everybody realized the impact of that.

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