Cohere’s chief AI officer: US and China will hold us ‘by the throat’ if we don’t develop local capabilities
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Cohere’s chief AI officer Joëlle Pineau said smaller AI players outside the US and China should team up to build credible alternatives to dominant model makers. She warned that the US and China will “hold us by the throat” if local capabilities aren’t developed, noting Cohere had signed a merger agreement with Aleph Alpha about a week earlier. As a result, the focus shifts from competing alone to forming alliances aimed at strengthening local AI production and reducing dependency.
