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Sovereign AI continues to ramp up, @nvidia continues to dominate as we shared in @CounterPointTR Sovereign AI Index.
@FirebirdAI an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by @nvidia accelerated computing and @high-performance AI infrastructure.
Firebird plans to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in Armenia by the end of 2027 and roughly 2GW of capacity in Armenia, Kazakhstan and additional markets.
Firebird’s AI factory is designed from the ground up to turn compute into revenue. With DSX, it can run up to 40% more GPUs on the same footprint, producing more tokens per dollar and extracting more value from every megawatt of capacity.
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92%.
That's NVIDIA's share in @CounterPointTR Sovereign AI LLM Index
@nvidia has become the default platform for Sovereign Al training and interence.
-While NVIDIA continues to dominate in training and now inferencing, challengers such as @AMD@cerebras@Qualcomm ,
Fantastic conversations with China ecosystem as we move from "Traffinomics to Tokenomics" for 5G/6G AI ecosystem.
@ChinaUnicomGlob@Huawei are at the forefront of driving this forward and becoming global benchmark.
@CounterPointTR analysts laid out our vision and framework for transitioning to 5G AI Cities
#AgenticAI#PhysicalAI#SmartCities
Met @NVIDIA's Jensen Huang again last night in Tokyo. His message:
"Starting from here is the beginning of Japan's AI."
The receipts: a national AI super factory powered by 27,500 Rubin GPUs, a 10M-robot target by 2040, and deals with Toyota, Honda, Fanuc & Kawasaki.
Is NVIDIA the missing piece in Japan's AI ecosystem?
linkedin.com/pulse/jensen-h…#SovereignAI#PhysicalAI#Japan#NVIDIA#Japan@CounterPointTR
Anthropic's announcement that it will start a drug discovery business is an interesting one. Big pharma is a very profitable business and is increasingly leveraging synthetic data and AI. I wouldn't be surprised to see them try to purchase one of these companies in the lower right quadrant if Anthropic Science takes off.
Will they target other high-margin, big data dependent sectors like cybersecurity or financial trading next?
#Anthropic#ClaudeScience#DrugDiscovery#AIinPharma@CounterPointTR
Verizon-BT JV for international enterprise: less "growth story," more "two carriers offloading low-margin units before the AI-era connectivity bill comes due." $625M equalization payment, deal closes 2027. Execution risk in 50:50 governance is the real story here.
@CounterPointTR#Telecom#VZ#BTGroup#AI#EnterpriseConnectivity
Sovereign AI is now a real thing. The US can always kill access to its models, like it has restricted Anthropic's Fable and Mythos. It also introduces ID checking and nationality checking. You can't rely on the US or China solely anymore :( cybernews.com/ai-news/anthro…
This is BIG!
Enterprise AI play beckons for Google:
@googlecloud & @IBM get into a major strategic partnership with more “consulting” play to help enterprises scale AI into production, modernize legacy systems, and deploy enterprise‑grade AI agents using a combination of IBM’s consulting expertise and Google Cloud’s @GeminiApp Enterprise Agent Platform.
Google brings Gemini and IBM brings Enterprise Consulting.
- A new Google Cloud Practice inside IBM Consulting
- Thousands of Google Cloud–certified IBM consultants will help clients deploy AI, modernize infrastructure, and manage hybrid environments.
- Industry‑specific AI agents
IBM is building a portfolio of agents optimized for Gemini Enterprise, covering banking, government, retail, telecom, energy, insurance, security, and life sciences.
- Deep integration of IBM Consulting Advantage with Google Cloud
IBM’s AI‑powered delivery platform (assets, reusable agents, workflows) now works directly with Google’s agent runtime, governance, and safety controls.
- Tailored for aerospace, financial services, government, healthcare, telecom.
- Includes Confluent for real‑time data streaming and governance.
- Modernize workloads across on‑prem and cloud.
- @RedHat@openshift now available directly in Google Cloud Console.
- Integrations between Gemini and @IBMwatsonx Orchestrate and watsonx.data.
& more
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On October 7th last year a list of @OpenAI's 30 1 trillion token users was leaked and companies like @duolingo, @shoppify_sa and @salesforce were hailed as pioneers in AI tokenomics. But markets have not been kind since then to the 7 companies on that list who are public (except for @datadog). Is Wall Street overreacting or is #AgenticAI coming for everyone's lunch?
Some reflections on #NVIDIA GTC 2026 — 600+ sessions and the telco story was impossible to ignore.
1/ NVIDIA is making a serious move into telecom. This isn't just chips anymore — they're building an ecosystem. Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Amdocs, SIs all in the room. A real challenger to Huawei/ZTE is taking shape.
2/ The AI Grid concept is gaining real traction. SoftBank, T-Mobile and Comcast are all in — they see genuine revenue opportunity at the network edge, especially around Physical AI services. Monetizing the edge? We've heard it before. But the ecosystem is finally mature enough to take seriously.
3/ Agentic AI as a network optimizer was a major theme. Native AI in 6G networks is the most promising development for the standard so far — and if it's baked into the architecture rather than bolted on, that's a real differentiator.
4/ Sovereign AI is changing everything. Telcos from Canada, Singapore, Germany, South Africa, Indonesia and more were all discussing how geopolitical concerns are reshaping infrastructure spend. This is a demand driver that runs independent of normal enterprise AI cycles.
I am here at @nvidiaGTC 2026 which is just wrapping up here in San Jose and what an amazing show it was. I was expecting to see lots of interesting announcements, demos and panel discussions about #PhysicalAI, #SovereignAI, #AgenticAI and #telecoms and the event did not disappoint. I will be writing about key takeaways when I am back in Japan as will the rest of the
@CounterPointTR team who attended.
One thing I was not expecting was to meet @ThorBjornsson_("The Mountain" from
@GameOfThrones) who was there with @VDURAinc- who have a very interesting #AI and #HPC storage and management platform. Stay tuned for more @nvidia news and takeaways!
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