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IBM CEO: sovereign AI talks picked up, sees tailwind for industry

By BORSA NewsroomPublished Oct 21, 2026, 6:46 PM EDTUpdated Oct 21, 2026, 6:47 PM EDT

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said sovereign AI conversations have increased this year. Open-weight models can achieve ~90% of frontier-model effectiveness at 10-25% cost, sufficient for most business tasks. He expects this to be a tailwind for infrastructure, semiconductor players, and enterprise AI deployers.

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CEO says sovereign AI conversations have picked up this year.