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The Annual AI Governance Report 2025: Steering the Future of AI

developed with a focus on underrepresented languages and will be released later in the
year in different sizes to make it widely usable.
• ICAIN (International Computing and AI Network): Described as a "CERN for AI,"
this initiative aims to create a decentralized, international network for AI resources.
It brings together partners from around the world to pool resources like large-scale
compute power, data, and talent. The primary purpose of ICAIN is to drive high-impact
projects in areas such as climate, agriculture, health, and humanitarian aid by fostering
collaboration and preventing competition among researchers. An example of this is a
partnership with AI Singapore to use the Swiss-made LLM to develop inclusive AI for
Southeast Asia. Switzerland’s ICAIN initiative was highlighted as an innovative response
to the concentration of compute power. By creating shared infrastructure accessible to
multiple stakeholders, ICAIN aims to democratize access to frontier AI capabilities while
embedding oversight and accountability.

Figure 18: (from left) Katharina Frey, Deputy Head Digitalisation Division, FDFA,
future ICAIN Executive Director, ETH Zurich; Bernard Maissen, State Secretary,
Director, Federal Office of Communications OFCOM; Mennatallah El-Assady,
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich; Mary-Anne
Hartley, Professor | Director, Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health & Humanitarian
Response Technologies (LiGHT)
The following use cases based on the above initiatives were explained:

• Sovereign AI and Decentralization: With "sovereign ability" in AI, countries would own
and adapt foundational models for their specific needs. Two practical applications of this
principle were mentioned, Meditron and Legitron.

o Meditron: A pipeline designed to "medicalize" any base language model. It is paired
with a platform called MOOVE (Massive Open Online Validation and Evaluation
platform), which allows doctors worldwide to test, validate, and customize the model
for their specific cultural and contextual needs.

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