Việt Nam's bid for AI sovereignty

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Việt Nam's bid for AI sovereignty

03/07/2026

08:43

Under Resolution 57, Việt Nam has named science, technology, and digital transformation its top strategic priority. A draft national strategy on artificial intelligence puts concrete numbers to that ambition: domestic computing capacity equivalent to 250,000 high-end GPUs, and at least five Vietnamese-language AI models, by 2030. The first pieces are already in place.

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