As big tech firms in the U.S. race to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on artificial intelligence, away from Silicon Valley, startups and researchers who cannot access the most advanced chips are adopting a more frugal approach — building smaller AI models on open-weight systems with fewer tokens — to meet the needs of populations with fewer resources.
Generative AI adoption is rising quickly worldwide, but there is a wide gap: Adoption in wealthier countries grew nearly twice as…

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