PANews reported on June 12, citing Bloomberg, that "middle powers" such as Canada, the EU, Japan, South Korea, and France are attempting to reduce their dependence on the US and China in the AI field through alliances and domestic industrial policies. Canada signed a "Sovereign Technology Alliance" with Germany and facilitated Cohere's acquisition of German company Aleph Alpha to reduce reliance on key technologies; the Netherlands launched the "AI Delta Plan" and a €200 million "AI factory," emphasizing technological sovereignty and ethical research; South Korea has made becoming one of the top three AI powers a "core national goal," increasing its AI budget to 9.9 trillion won by 2026, focusing on large-scale models, domestically developed GPUs, and data centers; and countries like Estonia and Greece are introducing AI on a large scale from a language and cultural security perspective to prevent their languages from being marginalized in the digital space.
