India and the UAE are building sovereign AI to route around the US hyperscalers.

Rest of World reports India and the UAE, via G42 and Cerebras, are standing up sovereign AI infrastructure to cut dependence on Google, Microsoft, and AWS (Rest of World). It fits a widening 2026 pattern: nation-states want to control compute and model stacks, not rent them. For builders this is a slow-moving but real signal that "where the model runs" is becoming a geopolitical question, and multi-region, multi-vendor portability is going to matter more, not less.