Taiwan eyes local AI as digital 'bulwark' against Chinese influence

Artificial intelligenceTAIDE aims to counter global models' tendency to reflect mainland language, viewsTaiwan's TAIDE is being developed as a homegrown AI model built with local data on top of open source foundations. (Illustration by Nikkei)TSUKASA HADANOJuly 16, 2026 03:53 JSTTAIPEI -- Taiwan is rushing to further develop its local generative artificial intelligence model, aiming to protect its language and culture by countering the mainland Chinese content that other models are trained on.