RiyadhSaudi Arabia’s Arabic AI runs on Chinese tech.
Nations across the Global South are refusing the US-China tech split entirely.
US export controls count chips at the border, but a Chinese model’s weights are just a free download.
Washington still controls what these nations compute on, and Beijing increasingly supplies what they compute with.
How each outlet framed it
- Rest of World
- captures Global South AI split: Saudi Arabia pairs Chinese models (MiniMax) with U.S. chips (Nvidia) to escape superpower lock-in
Sources: Rest of World