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Sridhar Vembu says globalisation is dead after AI ban
NDTV··13 Jun
NDTV reported that Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu called Anthropic's decision to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals a wake-up call for India. He said technology is now the ultimate weapon and India must build sovereign AI capacity.
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What It Means For You
- Advanced AI access is increasingly tied to geopolitics and export controls.
- Indian companies may need fallback models and domestic AI infrastructure to reduce dependency.
- Smaller open models can be strategically useful even if they trail frontier systems.
What's Happening
- Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals under US directive.
- Sridhar Vembu called it proof that globalisation is dead.
- He urged India to build sovereign AI capabilities.
AI Sovereignty
- Frontier AI requires huge capital, talent and restricted GPU supply.
- Export controls can affect even employees inside US companies if they are foreign nationals.
- Sovereign AI includes compute, models, data, talent and deployment control.
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