Artificial intelligence

Taiwan eyes local AI as digital 'bulwark' against Chinese influence

TAIDE aims to counter global models' tendency to reflect mainland language, views

Taiwan's TAIDE is being developed as a homegrown AI model built with local data on top of open source foundations. (Illustration by Nikkei)

TAIPEI -- Taiwan is rushing to further develop its local generative artificial intelligence model, aiming to protect its language and culture by countering the mainland Chinese content that other models are trained on.