AI will not scale globally without new capacity infrastructure

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing at extraordinary speed, but its economic benefits are not spreading in the same way. The limiting factor is no longer talent, ideas, or even access to models. It is infrastructure: The systems that allow AI to move from research labs into economies and institutions across borders.

A machine learning engineer in Lagos and her counterpart in London may be working on the same agricultural forecasting problem for West Africa. The London engineer can iterate every thirty minutes.