Kaohsiung mayor talks up sovereign AI plan at Nvidia GTCStaff writer, with CNAKaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) yesterday promoted Kaohsiung's Smart Lighthouse Project on the sidelines of the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, highlighting its potential for partnerships with international tech firms. As demand for computing power surges amid a shift toward generative artificial intelligence (AI) inference and "AI factory" development, the project is aimed at applying a "sovereign AI" approach to city governance, Chen told reporters at Nvidia GTC. Sovereign AI refers to a country or region's ability to develop AI using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and industry networks. Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai speaks to reporters at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, yesterday. He said that Kaohsiung also hopes to work with Nvidia to develop what he described as the world's largest city-scale large language model with local features.

Source: Taipei Times March 17, 2026 04:36 UTC