AI sovereignty is access and choice, not a national ChatGPT

When the US restricted foreign access to some of Anthropic’s most advanced models last week, it underscored a new reality: AI is now a geopolitical issue. In his latest piece for Project Syndicate, Sakana AI’s Co-Founder Ren Ito argues that AI sovereignty is not about building a national ChatGPT. It is about maintaining access to frontier AI and preserving the freedom to choose among multiple models. https://t.co/Um1VnnOkPr

The US government’s abrupt decision to suspend foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models clarifies what “AI sovereignty” is really about. In the emerging AI economy, competitive advantage will come not from owning a single model, but from being able to evaluate, select, and orchestrate many models.