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Making sovereign AI projects fail-proof

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February 16, 2026

WITH NUMEROUS NATIONS scrambling to establish their own sovereign AI ecosystems, investing billions in infrastructure and cutting-edge models, one critical question surfaces—why do so many of these mega projects never reach production? Ruchir Puri, chief scientist and vice-president, IBM Research, shares three fundamental issues that most governments underestimate.

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First and foremost is the lack of organisation around data. “Your data is in very diverse environments, very diverse formats,’ Puri explained.This

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