A Brookings report argues that middle powers like Europe, Japan, and South Korea cannot match US or China across the full AI stack but should preserve agency by focusing on physical and industrial AI in critical regulated sectors (health, energy, transport). It recommends a modular sovereignty strategy that pools shared compute and research while keeping application control national, and notes the US Pax Silica initiative may conflict with independent middle-power capacity building. For a financial institution, the structural implication is that hyperscaler AI capex and revenue may face incremental demand risk if middle-power procurement shifts toward regionally controlled rather than foreign platforms.
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