The Bhutan Sovereign LLM Initiative, led by DHI InnoTech, aims to build a national AI layer for Bhutan, which is a secure, sovereign Large Language Model integrated with a structured National Data Lake. This platform will: Aggregate structured and unstructured national datasets. Serve as a sovereign knowledge engine trained on Bhutan-specific data. Power AI agents capable of policy analysis, institutional intelligence, and public-facing services. Act as a digital extension of Bhutan. It will be a responsible AI representation of the Kingdom for both domestic governance and international engagement. The initiative envisions Bhutan not merely as a consumer of global AI systems but as a creator of a nationally aligned intelligence layer, grounded in Bhutanese values, governance structures, and development priorities. The deployment architecture remains flexible: Phase 1 (Prototype): Agent-based architecture built on leading AI APIs. Phase 2 (Conditional on Funding): Migration to sovereign GPU infrastructure hosted within Bhutan. Alternative Path: Continued operation on secure global cloud infrastructure if capital expenditure is constrained. The system is being developed as modular, interoperable, and sovereign by design.
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The project is spearheaded by DHI InnoTech in collaboration with Royal Bhutan Police.
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