"It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history – you own your own data,” - while I agree that countries should not depend on foreign megacorps in such an increasingly important field, this formulation also implies that the objectivity and clarity we were hoping advanced AI will possess are not priorities. Like in the case of mass-media and internet, many non-western countries will not want their people to primarily interact with western-value (whatever is the definition of that) LLMs.

Also the UAE minister of AI being called Omar Al Olama is funny.