Democracies should share frontier AI models with allies

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Security and cyber resilience

Proponents say democratic states need frontier models to protect critical infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and support defense and intelligence work. They frame sharing as a way to get advanced tools into the hands of governments, critical infrastructure, allies, and trusted partners facing growing security threats.

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
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
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
Work with the US Government to help UK access Frontier US models.

UK Ministry of Defence · Jun 10, 2026 · full quote

Shared governance and standards

Another case for sharing is that it can be structured through forums, alliances, and government-to-government cooperation among trusted partners. In this view, participants should follow accepted rules and shared evaluation, safety, and security standards so access expands with trust.

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
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
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
It's very important that trusted partners and strategic partners are included in the process.

Omran Sharaf · Jul 2, 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

Distributed capability and sovereignty

Supporters argue frontier AI is becoming essential infrastructure, so allies should not be left dependent on any single company, country, or provider. Joint development and access can let countries reflect their own languages, culture, industries, and institutions while retaining control over data, models, and deployment and avoiding vulnerability if cut off.

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
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
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
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 nations to advance frontier AI toge…

Shireesh Kedare · Jun 21, 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

Economic and industrial gains

Sharing models with allies is also presented as a way to deepen diplomacy, research, talent, investment, and infrastructure links while expanding economic growth and local application ecosystems. Some supporters further argue that exporting allied-accessible AI strengthens national competitiveness and encourages partners to build on that technology stack.

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
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
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
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
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

Middle ground

Selective rather than universal sharing

Several supportive quotes do not call for unrestricted sharing. They limit access to trusted allies or partners, sometimes as early access for participants that follow common rules, and pair collaboration with countries retaining sovereignty over their data and models.

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
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
It's very important that trusted partners and strategic partners are included in the process.

Omran Sharaf · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
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
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

Insights

Across the quotes, support is usually framed as selective sharing with trusted allies, partners, or rule-following participants rather than as open access for everyone.
Security and resilience arguments recur frequently, especially around critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, defense, and intelligence.
Many supporters tie sharing to sovereignty, saying countries can collaborate on frontier AI while still controlling data, models, deployment, and local adaptation.
The supportive case comes from a mix of actors in government, defense, trade, diplomacy, industry, and research, not just AI companies.
The quotes contain two compatible but different models of sharing: some emphasize multinational or open infrastructure, while others emphasize allies building on a leading national stack.

In the provided excerpts, the case for sharing frontier AI among democracies rests on security, resilience, sovereignty, and economic cooperation. The main variation is not over whether allies should coordinate, but over how: many speakers envision trusted-partner access governed by rules, standards, and government-to-government arrangements while also preserving national control.

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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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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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United Arab Emirates Assistant Foreign Minister for Advanced Science and Technology.

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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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Matthew Ferren
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in National Security and former U.S. Department of Defense cyber-policy official.

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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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Anthony Annunziata
Chairman of the AI Alliance and Director of AI Open Innovation at IBM.

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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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Christopher Nguyen
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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Shireesh Kedare
Director of IIT Bombay and Chairman of BharatGen; AI research and innovation leader.

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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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Ajay Kumar Sood
Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India; physicist and science-policy official.

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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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AI Alliance
Global coalition advancing open, safe, and responsible artificial intelligence

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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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President of France

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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
Prime Minister of India

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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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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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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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G7 Digital and Technology Ministers
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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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Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

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“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...
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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.
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“We are turning President Trump’s vision for sharing a trusted, sovereign AI stack with the world into action.”
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

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“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.”
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U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade.

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America’s continued global leadership in AI depends on our ability to export our AI to allies around the world.
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Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation; Liberal MP for Toronto Centre

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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...
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U.S. Chief Technology Officer in 2026.

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“[It is] important to bring American AI technology across the full stack to partners and allies across the globe.”
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