> He asserted that any country with its own language that did not have a sovereign LLM trained in that language was at a disadvantage as a globally trained, English-speaking LLM would not know about that country’s history, news and culture that was described in the local language.

I don’t know this is true. But whatever sounds true enough and gets funding seems to be what flies these days.

They made the cultural case, you have no idea how strong this is in places like quebec, nordics, france, russia etc