Cultivating the next generation of AI innovators in a global tech hub

Today, the rewards of AI are mostly enjoyed by a few countries in what the Oxford Internet Institute dubs the "Compute North." These countries, such as the US, the U.K., France, Canada, and China, have dominated research and development, and built state of the art AI infrastructure capable of training foundational models. This should come as no surprise, as these countries are home to many of the world's top universities and large tech corporations. But this concentration of innovation comes at a cost for the billions of people who live outside these dominant countries and have different cultural backgrounds. Large language models (LLMs) are illustrative of this disparity.