Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.

“Frugal AI” might be the more important story than frontier models.

Smaller, open-weight systems → less compute, less energy, more sovereignty and deployable where Big Tech infrastructure doesn’t exist.

#AI #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #FrugalAI

Viva la Sustainable AI, enfin? Last year, at Viva Technology (aka VivaTech), I hosted a round table session for a select few attendees keen to find out more about AI. This year, not only were sustainable AI luminaries Sasha Lucc…

Have we reached a tipping point when it comes to the impact of AI? The mood at traditionally techno-solutionist event @vivatech.bsky.social was positive re. our prospects of switching to more #frugalAI. My report, feat. our panel with @sashamtl.bsky.social & more: bettertech.blog/2025/06/13/v...

Women leading climate and policy action | #IWD2025 Science, policy, impact - our women researchers are making waves worldwide. Ahead of #IWD2025, hear from some of them 👩‍🔬 🌍

Meet some of the women leading change in climate and sustainability. From protecting the #Amazon to #FrugalAI, our researchers are making a global impact.

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📢 Hear from: Katherine Browne, Caroline Sawe, Dayoon Kim, @somyajoshi.bsky.social, Parichat Pinsri, Cassilde Muhoza

.@somyajoshi.bsky.social heads our AI Task Force, ensuring transparency and equity remain central to emerging tech governance. #FrugalAI

She joins global voices to challenge the silver bullet narrative and push for responsible AI.

📽️ Watch her clip in the @bennettinstitute.bsky.social repost:

Last Friday, @perssonasa.bsky.social and Somya Joshi welcomed Sally Radwan, @unep.org's Chief Digital Officer, to our HQ for discussions on #AI, sustainability and global challenges - strengthening the SEI-UNEP partnership. 🤝

#FrugalAI

#FrugalAI is at the heart of our work at SEI.

With a global network of centres & in-house AI tools, we examine artificial intelligence’s hidden environmental costs - from water & energy use to #CriticalMinerals & governance.

Striking parallels exist between the DeepSeek technical paper and the research hypotheses that guided our 'Sustainable AI' scenario in our exploratory research paper on AI and electricity futures.
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Deepseek technical paper: lnkd.in/epfUDw7U

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Frugal AI definition for a 300 character world - Frugal AI aims to maximize environmental and societal impact while operating with minimal resources. #FrugalAI #AIforImpact #SustainableAI #InclusiveAI #AIforSocialgood #EfficientAI