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Sovereign AI: How Enterprises and Cities Can Own Their AI with Sam Chen
Join Sam Chen, Founder and CEO of OpenCSG, for an essential exploration of sovereign AI and open-source infrastructure. As enterprises, local governments, and smart cities race to integrate generative and agentic AI, relying strictly on proprietary, closed-source cloud APIs presents significant operational risks: vendor lock-in, ballooning compute costs, regulatory compliance friction, and severe data privacy vulnerabilities. Drawing on over 20 years of deep industry leadership—including founding JiHu (GitLab China), serving as Vice Chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and…
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