Vietnam spent much of the past two months collecting the kind of technology partnerships that countries twice its economic size have struggled to secure. Nvidia named the country a focal point of its sovereign AI strategy in early June, Microsoft expanded its enterprise AI alliance with Vietnam’s largest technology company later that month, and former…
When Microsoft took the stage at Build 2026 in San Francisco, the announcement did not sound like a break from OpenAI. It sounded like a company insuring itself against a bet it had already made. Seven new artificial intelligence models, built entirely in-house under the internal brand MAI, went live without a single line of…