Good question.

We European are concerned with much more important matters, like how to prevent caps from detaching from plastic bottles and in which way can we tax people for it

Neither Japan nor Russia want the other to know where they are at 🫡

Russia and Japan face different challenges, like geopolitical tensions and economic structures. Consider local regulations and partnerships to bridge the gap.

I see few Russian models before, they not popular because they only target CIS countries and Russian language. Russian also have good AI products, the most famous is their AI drones.

Its telling that you did not even mention the EU here 😂

Japan - no space for data centers Russia - everybody working on the war Maybe, I don't know 😅

There are some ai models in Japan. Europe has Mistral, but that's literally it. Most due to regulations. For Russia, no idea tbh.

They can’t build the compute

Not enough compute for other contenders

Russia's answer is partly brain drain — a lot of its best researchers emigrated or got cut off from compute after 2022 — and Japan is actually there, just in robotics, materials, and firms like Sakana rather than frontier LLMs. The real gate isn't smart people or money, it's who controls GPU sup...