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2026-08-16 · EDITION 002 · 480 SCANNED ━▶ 11 CLEARED
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India and Nigeria Race to Build AI Human Capital Amid US Supply-Chain Controls

India and Nigeria Race to Build AI Human Capital Amid US Supply-Chain Controls

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to train 10 million young people in artificial intelligence within a year. Nigeria’s civil-society AI work also earned fresh UNESCO recognition.

WHY IT MATTERS  The lead shows India and Nigeria accelerating AI talent-building as US supply-chain controls sharpen the policy debate.

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THE BOARD · 09:40 UTC
REPRICEQwen3.6 27B (qwen)in $0.60→$0.30 ▼50%
$3.60→$2.00 ▼44%
REPRICEGLM-5.2 Full Open Source (z-ai)in $0.49→$0.31 ▼37%
$1.54→$0.97 ▼37%
REPRICEKimi K2.6 (moonshotai)in $0.65→$0.54 ▼17%
$3.41→$2.28 ▼33%
BENCH22 models+216 rows / 24h
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Running 2.45T-Parameter Models on Desktop GPUs: Local Inference Pushes Limits

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a model with 512 routed experts and 10 active per token, was run locally on a rig built around an NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32 GB VRAM) and an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB VRAM), paired with…

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