Muhammad Umar explains how companies set up AI proving grounds in regions with loose regulations, mainly South America, to build and test models cheaply before exporting them to developed markets. They establish micro data centers for training, then move the refined models to bypass regulatory oversight in places like the US and Europe.
What does it mean by AI proving ground? Like, I mean there, it's not like this is the first time happening with like proving ground thing in terms of medicine. This has been happening from last two decades. Like for example, FDA local laws are very, I mean the regulations are extremely tough to navigate, for example, in the US So most of the companies, what they've been doing is they're building those proving grounds in South America where laws are relatively lax. They build the drugs, test it and then bring it back into the US for the FDA approval. Right. So you can find it like something like this is happening currently when it comes to AI proving grounds. And so companies are building global capability and capability centers, not just for like onboarding. More engineers who would be building custom tooling for your business or stuff like that. What they're doing is they're building this AI proving grounds where they are deploying, they're building those micro data centers, if you like, lots of energy and then most importantly, incredible infrastructure for data acquisition and for them, once you acquire that data, build a model, deploying those models into the local setting, into those states to actually learn, and then export that final infrastructure into the developed markets. So that's what AI proving ground.
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