or.. from 'Google AI Opportunity Agenda' published very recently, quote: • Governments and the private sector have a critical role to play in investing in R&D

or.. from 'Google AI Opportunity Agenda' published very recently, quote: • Governments and the private sector have a critical role to play in investing in R&D and AI infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, compute capacity, and data, to ensure that researchers, technologists, and businesses have access to the tools needed to research, build and deploy AI. While countries have been focused on national-level approaches to this challenge, we should also think globally – and ensure that AI innovation is not the domain of only the richest countries and richest cities and regions. Countries should establish a Global Resource for AI Research (GRAIR). • In addition to investing in AI infrastructure, policymakers must also adopt strategies to enable researchers and innovators to convert ideas and data into new discoveries, products and services. This will require advancing pro-innovation legal frameworks that spur dynamism across the entire ecosystem. • Finally, because AI is by its nature a cross-border technology, individual policy efforts must be tethered to strong trade and investment policies that support trusted international collaboration on AI, including cross-border data flows essential to AI development and deployment. ... we should ensure that academic researchers in a broader range of countries globally, including in the developing world, have access to compute resources – to ensure that they can help advance AI innovation and promote AI research. For this reason, governments should come together to establish a Global Resource for AI Research (GRAIR) to ensure that we enable AI research globally. The GRAIR would serve as a shared AI research resource and clearinghouse to make compute, data, and software resources available to academics, start-ups and small and medium enterprises conducting AI development and research. Beyond providing technical resources, the GRAIR should also provide support for countries at different levels of development to build up domestic AI workforce capabilities, including application developers and researchers.