You're head of product at a government-backed national model lab. Do you chase frontier benchmarks or build what the global labs won't?

Sovereignty wins procurement meetings, not renewals. Compete on local languages and voice, deployment control and open weights, use the public sector as the first channel, and track commercial revenue outside the subsidy.

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