Democracies should share frontier AI models with allies

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Key insights

Government officials, company leaders, researchers, and international groupings in the supplied material all voice support, often using security language around critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, and defense.
Many supportive quotes are not arguing for unrestricted diffusion; they limit access to allies, trusted partners, or participants that meet agreed rules and standards.
Several proponents explicitly try to combine sharing with sovereignty, arguing that nations can collaborate while still controlling their own data, models, deployment, or domestic infrastructure.
The quotes endorse different sharing models: some favor open or distributed development so no single company or country controls access, while others favor export-led diffusion of one country's AI stack to allies.
Reliable access is treated as an implementation problem as well as a principle, with calls for exemptions, advance warning, common benchmarks, guaranteed parity access, and compute-for-access arrangements.

Arguments for

Collective security

Supporters argue that democratic nations need access to frontier AI to protect critical information infrastructure, harden allies against adversary penetration, and equip defense and intelligence communities. As models become more capable, getting them into the hands of governments, critical infrastructure operators, allies, and trusted partners is framed as a security priority.

No country can be truly secure if it lacks control over its own critical infrastructure. Democratic nations should have access to such AI models so that they can protect their critical information infrastructure and effectively address growing cyber threats. Access to these impor…

Narendra Modi · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
The United States has a strong interest in the broad adoption of its frontier AI tools. From a cybersecurity standpoint, the United States should want its allies to harden their critical infrastructure against adversary penetration.

Matthew Ferren · Jun 22, 2026 · full quote
Second, it makes sense to use AI to empower democracies to resist autocracies. This is the reason Anthropic considers it important to provide AI to the intelligence and defense communities in the US and its democratic allies. Defending democracies that are under attack, such as U…

Dario Amodei · Jan 2026 · full quote
In particular, and as the last few weeks have shown, as AI models become more and more capable, we need a coherent system that will allow us to get the tools into the hands of government, critical infrastructure, allies, and trusted partners.

Chris Lehane · Jul 15, 2026 · full quote
We are developing an interoperable transatlantic warfighting cloud and adopting powerful AI models.

NATO · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote

Open innovation

Another argument is that science, innovation, and checks and balances benefit when AI is open, shared, and not controlled by any single company or country. On this view, wider allied access extends the benefits of openness, model diversity, economic growth, and individual empowerment.

India has long believed that science advances fastest when it is open and shared. Project Tapestry, which lets nations build frontier AI together while retaining sovereignty over their data and models, reflects the collaborative, self-reliant innovation India is advancing.

Ajay Kumar Sood · Jun 21, 2026 · full quote
AI is becoming essential infrastructure. No single company or country should determine who can build on it, adapt it, or benefit from it. Project Tapestry is a test of whether frontier AI can be built as open infrastructure: collaborative, capable, and sovereign by design.

Yann LeCun · Jun 21, 2026 · full quote
We expect this Vision to help extend the existing benefits of AI openness in science, innovation, and economic growth, while ensuring trust in technologies and access to a greater diversity of models.

G7 Digital and Technology Ministers · Jun 1, 2026 · full quote
I think the consensus was we need something. [...] Democracies should focus their efforts on making sure the G7 doesn’t just produce the most capable AI, but also the second most capable AI.

Aidan Gomez · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote
One of the ways to achieve both individual empowerment and checks and balances is to make sure you put the technology in everybody's hands.

Mark Zuckerberg · Aug 10, 2026 · full quote

Allied economic coordination

Several quotes present sharing as a tool of alliance-building: countries can share AI, research, talent, investment, infrastructure, and common models while coordinating standards and public goods. This is described as a way to deepen bilateral diplomacy, international development, and economic dynamism.

In February 2026, Canada and Germany launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance, an initiative that will deepen collaboration with trusted allies to use common AI models, share digital infrastructure, access capital, and participate in joint research. It will also ensure similar …

Government of Canada · Jun 8, 2026 · full quote
One of those landmark initiatives is the Sovereign Technology Alliance, which will deepen our collaboration with trusted allies, starting with Germany, in order to share AI, research, talent, investment, and infrastructure.

Mark Carney · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
Through our strengthened AI partnership and the launch of the Sovereign Technology Alliance, Canada and Germany will deepen cooperation on digital standards and public goods, AI model development, and the safe and secure use of AI while strengthening our technological and economi…

Evan Solomon · Feb 14, 2026 · full quote
Our hope is that shared efforts to to advance the diffusion of the full AI stack across partner countries will become an occasion for bilateral diplomacy, international development, and global economic dynamism.

Katie Strickland · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
So let us move forward together. Our relevant agencies must first cooperate so that, in the areas of security and cybersecurity, we have a smooth government-to-government relationship.

Emmanuel Macron · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote

Strategic export leadership

Some supporters emphasize the supplier country's interest: exporting trusted frontier AI to allies can strengthen the domestic industrial base, deepen ties with partners, and make that country's stack the global standard. In this view, allied adoption is part of both economic and national-security leadership.

America’s continued global leadership in AI depends on our ability to export our AI to allies around the world.

William Kimmitt · Mar 16, 2026 · full quote
“Through the ExportAI Initiative, EXIM is leveraging the full strength of its financing toolkit to help American companies export trusted AI technologies worldwide, strengthen our industrial base here at home, and ensure the next generation of global innovation is built on Americ…

John Jovanovic · May 21, 2026 · full quote
President Trump's vision for American innovation and competitiveness is clear: establish American AI as the gold standard for AI worldwide and ensure our allies are building on American technology.

Export-Import Bank of the United States · May 21, 2026 · full quote
“By promoting full-stack American solutions, we are strengthening our economic and national security, deepening ties with allies and partners, and ensuring that the future of AI is led by the United States.”

Howard Lutnick · Apr 1, 2026 · full quote
“We are turning President Trump’s vision for sharing a trusted, sovereign AI stack with the world into action.”

Michael Kratsios · Apr 1, 2026 · full quote
“[It is] important to bring American AI technology across the full stack to partners and allies across the globe.”

Ethan Klein · Feb 6, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Trusted, rules-based access

A recurring condition is that access should flow through trusted-partner arrangements, government-to-government cooperation, and systems that set standards, assess risks, and require participants to follow the rules. Similar safety, security, evaluation, and benchmark practices are treated as part of responsible sharing.

A U.S.-led international forum that establishes accepted standards, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and makes the technology available to nations and companies that participate and follow the rules.

Sam Altman · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
collaborate with the Federal Government to select trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

The White House · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
It's very important that trusted partners and strategic partners are included in the process.

Omran Sharaf · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
In February 2026, Canada and Germany launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance, an initiative that will deepen collaboration with trusted allies to use common AI models, share digital infrastructure, access capital, and participate in joint research. It will also ensure similar …

Government of Canada · Jun 8, 2026 · full quote
So let us move forward together. Our relevant agencies must first cooperate so that, in the areas of security and cybersecurity, we have a smooth government-to-government relationship.

Emmanuel Macron · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote

Sovereignty and assured supply

Another nuanced view is that sharing should not leave countries dependent on foreign providers. These quotes pair collaboration with retained control over local data, models, and deployment, domestic hosting for critical uses, and negotiated or guaranteed access terms to reduce vulnerability to cutoffs.

Government should be pressing Washington for published criteria before access is restricted, advance warning and exemptions for allies, as we already handle security of supply in energy and defense. At home, it should require critical infrastructure operators to keep their AI run…

Alan Woodward · Aug 27, 2026 · full quote
Project Tapestry is a global open consortium to build frontier-capability AI through distributed model development while allowing participating nations and institutions to retain control over their own data, models, and deployment.

AI Alliance · Jun 19, 2026 · full quote
With the National Innovation Center and FPT Corporation engaged, Project Tapestry gives Vietnam a path to help build frontier AI that reflects its language, culture, industries, and institutions while retaining control over its own data, models, and deployment.

Christopher Nguyen · Jun 21, 2026 · full quote
guaranteed, cheap access to jointly-developed models would enable domestic firms to capture automation gains without dependency on foreign providers; structured licensing would stimulate local application ecosystems; and equitable benefit-sharing would ensure that economic growth…

A Blueprint for Multinational Advanced AI Development · Nov 24, 2025 · full quote
For securing that access, there are not that many options. I think the best general version we’ve come up with is compute-for-access: you build out data centres to alleviate the inference crunch and meet the demand for inference that these leading labs have, and in return, you as…

Anton Leicht · Jul 14, 2026 · full quote
Europe, Canada or other countries can be put in an extremely vulnerable position if they are cut off from advanced AI models.

Zach Meyers · Jun 17, 2026 · full quote

Within these quotations, support for allied access to frontier AI is broad across sectors and is justified on security, innovation, diplomatic, and industrial grounds. The main points of variation concern how sharing is governed: many quotes insist on trusted-partner criteria, shared standards, retained national control, and reliable access arrangements.

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Alan Woodward
Researcher and co-author of a 2026 paper on frontier-AI export controls and national AI sovereignty.

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Government should be pressing Washington for published criteria before access is restricted, advance warning and exemptions for allies, as we already handle security of supply in energy and defense. At home, it should require critical infrastructure ...
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United Kingdom–Ukraine Joint Declaration on AI Partnership
Official joint declaration by the United Kingdom and Ukraine on bilateral cooperation to develop, assure, and extend AI-enabled capabilities to trusted allies and partners.

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Our cooperation will proceed through three interlocking pillars: (1) Government-to-Government collaboration on co-developed models, secure data and compute pathways, and joint assurance; [...] By mutual agreement, we will extend the outputs of this P...
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Seasonal Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, writing on Australian frontier-AI access.

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Australia needs to move from accepting whatever access arrangements the market and the alliance deliver by default, to deliberate orientation toward securing two conditions for frontier AI access: unconditional capability parity with what the United ...
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Mark Zuckerberg
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One of the ways to achieve both individual empowerment and checks and balances is to make sure you put the technology in everybody's hands.
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We are extremely interested in looking at ways to build U.S. open source, make it competitive, make it the preferential adoption by planet Earth,
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In particular, and as the last few weeks have shown, as AI models become more and more capable, we need a coherent system that will allow us to get the tools into the hands of government, critical infrastructure, allies, and trusted partners.
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For securing that access, there are not that many options. I think the best general version we’ve come up with is compute-for-access: you build out data centres to alleviate the inference crunch and meet the demand for inference that these leading la...
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We are developing an interoperable transatlantic warfighting cloud and adopting powerful AI models.
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Our hope is that shared efforts to to advance the diffusion of the full AI stack across partner countries will become an occasion for bilateral diplomacy, international development, and global economic dynamism.
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We should argue for trusted US allies and partners to have priority access to the most powerful models.
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It's very important that trusted partners and strategic partners are included in the process.
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A U.S.-led international forum that establishes accepted standards, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and makes the technology available to nations and companies that participate and follow the rules.
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The United States has a strong interest in the broad adoption of its frontier AI tools. From a cybersecurity standpoint, the United States should want its allies to harden their critical infrastructure against adversary penetration.
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Project Tapestry aims to build the most capable frontier AI possible in a way that ensures the value and control of that AI is retained by those developing and deploying it - whether they are in industry, government, a non-profit or an individual. Th...
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Chief Architect of Project Tapestry and CEO of Aitomatic; AI systems leader.

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With the National Innovation Center and FPT Corporation engaged, Project Tapestry gives Vietnam a path to help build frontier AI that reflects its language, culture, industries, and institutions while retaining control over its own data, models, and ...
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As India builds frontier AI rooted in its own languages and knowledge, IIT Bombay and BharatGen supported by the India AI mission are proud to support and participate as a founding contributor in Project Tapestry, an open, global consortium for natio...
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India has long believed that science advances fastest when it is open and shared. Project Tapestry, which lets nations build frontier AI together while retaining sovereignty over their data and models, reflects the collaborative, self-reliant innovat...
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AI is becoming essential infrastructure. No single company or country should determine who can build on it, adapt it, or benefit from it. Project Tapestry is a test of whether frontier AI can be built as open infrastructure: collaborative, capable, a...
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Project Tapestry is a global open consortium to build frontier-capability AI through distributed model development while allowing participating nations and institutions to retain control over their own data, models, and deployment.
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So let us move forward together. Our relevant agencies must first cooperate so that, in the areas of security and cybersecurity, we have a smooth government-to-government relationship.
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Europe, Canada or other countries can be put in an extremely vulnerable position if they are cut off from advanced AI models.
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I think the consensus was we need something. [...] Democracies should focus their efforts on making sure the G7 doesn’t just produce the most capable AI, but also the second most capable AI.
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Narendra Modi
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No country can be truly secure if it lacks control over its own critical infrastructure. Democratic nations should have access to such AI models so that they can protect their critical information infrastructure and effectively address growing cyber ...
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Resident senior fellow and head of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's AI and Security program.

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As advanced AI models become more powerful and more critical to national security, they are being treated as guarded national assets, not to be shared even with trusted allies. [...] Australian entities, including our highly respected Australian Sign...
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Work with the US Government to help UK access Frontier US models.
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In February 2026, Canada and Germany launched the Sovereign Technology Alliance, an initiative that will deepen collaboration with trusted allies to use common AI models, share digital infrastructure, access capital, and participate in joint research...
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Prime Minister of Canada; former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada

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One of those landmark initiatives is the Sovereign Technology Alliance, which will deepen our collaboration with trusted allies, starting with Germany, in order to share AI, research, talent, investment, and infrastructure.
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collaborate with the Federal Government to select trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.
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We expect this Vision to help extend the existing benefits of AI openness in science, innovation, and economic growth, while ensuring trust in technologies and access to a greater diversity of models.
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AI governance researcher

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Middle powers should help the US, and make sure they are rewarded with continued access to frontier AI and new technologies (including military tech).
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