Sovereign AI — a nation’s capability to develop and utilize AI technologies independently — becomes a strategic imperative for 2026.
The Great AI Decoupling:
2020-2024 was US dominance (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta). 2025-2026 marks the Sovereign AI era — each nation building its own models, data, and infrastructure.
The Four Risks of AI Dependency:
Data Sovereignty — Citizen data processed on foreign servers
Economic Leverage — API pricing power held by others
Kill Switch Risk — Access can be revoked geopolitically
Cultural Bias — Models trained on foreign datasets
The Sovereign AI Champions:
European Union (Mistral AI) — €2B+ investment
China (DeepSeek) — $150B+ national AI push
UAE (Falcon LLM) — $10B sovereign fund
India (Krutrim AI) — $1-2B emerging market play
“In the AI era, digital sovereignty is as important as territorial sovereignty.”
Gennaro is the creator of FourWeekMBA, which reached about four million business people, comprising C-level executives, investors, analysts, product managers, and aspiring digital entrepreneurs in 2022 alone | He is also Director of Sales for a high-tech scaleup in the AI Industry | In 2012, Gennaro earned an International MBA with emphasis on Corporate Finance and Business Strategy.
