South Africa Will Not Pick a Side Between US and Chinese AI Stacks – Malatsi

South Africa will not align itself with either Washington or Beijing on artificial intelligence, communications minister Solly Malatsi has told TechCentral, rejecting the central premise of a new Boston Consulting Group study arguing that the window for countries to hedge between the two AI superpowers is closing. The Great Divide: How the US and China Are Splitting the AI World , published on 30 June, found that the two countries are no longer building rival products inside one market but separ