Some 35 per cent of Canadian respondents to IDC’s survey of decision-makers at firms with over US$1 billion in annual revenue said competitive advantage was the primary driver of adopting sovereign AI. That’s higher than in the U.S. (28 per cent), Germany (23 per cent) or the U.K. (18 per cent). Cohere commissioned the survey, which had 508 respondents. (The Logic)

Talking point: What sovereign AI is exactly remains a live issue—business leaders and policymakers tend to talk about it in overlapping but not quite identical terms. A majority of the executives that IDC polled said it has to do with local or national control, while just over a quarter said it’s about reducing foreign dependence. But fully a third couldn’t really define sovereign AI. Respondents cited AI infrastructure deficits and costs as top reasons that they aren’t yet ready to adopt it. Cohere touts sovereignty as a major selling point of its technology, since the firm’s models and tools can be run on clients’ own hardware, or on dedicated systems managed on their behalf.

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