The World Economic Forum's MINDS programme has recognized FLock.io for its federated learning platform being used by two NHS trusts to train clinical models for major diseases while maintaining complete data sovereignty.
Countries including Canada, South Korea, and European nations are racing to build domestic AI infrastructure and deploy locally-controlled AI systems, driven by data sovereignty regulations and concerns about dependence on U.S. technology. Korea has shipped its first sovereign AI appliance combining domestic chips and language models, while Europe faces data center capacity constraints.
A bipartisan parliamentary committee has issued a report criticizing Britain's reliance on U.S. tech company Palantir in the public sector, warning that the dependency on the $375 billion data analytics firm represents an 'unacceptable point of weakness' for the country.
