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Comment by Giorgos Verdi
Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR); researcher on EU tech sovereignty, AI, and economic security
AI middle powers could pool the costs of frontier AI development and collaborate more closely to acquire homegrown capabilities. [...] Middle powers should collaborate to pursue alternative pathways toward frontier AI development, for example via joint research and development programmes; middle powers should aim to pool compute and data resources so they can run AI training and processing without being dependent on US or Chinese infrastructure.
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(2026)
20d ago
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Quote confirmed via web search of the ECFR "Capability club" article. Author Giorgos Verdi (ECFR Policy Fellow on EU tech sovereignty) is correctly identified. The quote's content — that AI middle powers should pool costs/compute/data to collaboratively develop frontier AI independently of US or Chinese infrastructure — aligns directly with the "for" vote on statement 449 about democratic middle powers jointly developing frontier AI. Source URL returned 403 but content was independently corroborated. Year 2026 current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 17d ago
replying to Giorgos Verdi