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Oh yeah, there's a GETS RFP up at the moment looking for an AI provider that could handle services for up to 420,000 staff and students I get that inference compute is hard to come by but it still feels directionally wrong that there are no limits on data residency www.gets.govt.nz/TEC/External...

Marcus

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While it's not as "serious" as healthcare, Heidi Health is seemingly able to handle all of their inference and data storage requirements perfectly fine over in Australia on behalf of hospitals so I don't see why this couldn't be scoped to APAC at its widest

Marcus

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That said, they are themselves providing all of the infrastructure around the models in use whereas here, institutions may want to directly interface with the OpenAI's and Anthropic's of the world instead of ie; needing some third party to serve up frontier models via Bedrock in Sydney/Melbourne 🤷

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Marcus

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As far as I understand, there is a limit in the sense of "You have to stick to whatever residency setup you apply with unless you give notice" but I don't think there's a hard requirement to eventually end up with data resident in APAC in the vein of Heidi having to migrate to NZ when feasible