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If we're serious about Al, we must give students the compute to build
Manila Bulletin
|December 10, 2025
Governments around the world are making grand declarations about their ambitions in artificial intelligence.
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Strategies are unveiled, taskforces formed, and glossy visions laid out in conference halls. Yet one truth remains stubbornly ignored: you cannot develop indigenous AI capacity without giving your next generation of thinkers-the students-the raw compute power they need to learn, experiment, fail, and build again.
Put plainly: if a country is not institutionalizing compute access for its students, it is not serious about AI.
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