Silicon Valley firms are rushing to train artificial intelligence models with tens of thousands of graphics processing units, and offering multimillion-dollar salaries to star researchers. Meanwhile, in Mongolia, Badral Sanlig is building a large language model with only 128 GPUs and a small team of engineers to serve just his country. Sanlig’s startup, Egune AI, is part of a growing movement to build LLMs in low-resource languages to expand AI access for underserved populations. Despite a short...