---
id: "quote-many-codebases"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ How to Develop a Country-Level AI Strategy"]
tags: ["future-of-ai", "decentralization"]
related: ["concept-localized-ai-execution"]
speaker: "Yasuhiro Yamakawa and Thomas H. Davenport"
speakers: ["Yasuhiro Yamakawa", "Thomas H. Davenport"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-cl-94-ai-strategy-beyond-us-china"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/12/your-ai-strategy-needs-to-expand-beyond-the-u-s-and-china"
sourceTitle: "Your AI Strategy Needs to Expand Beyond the U.S. and China"
---
# The future of global AI

> "The future of global AI won't be written in one codebase, but in many, each reflecting its local soil. Instead of exporting an idea of AI, let's start cultivating many."

— [[entity-yasuhiro-yamakawa]] and [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]]

The article's concluding thought, advocating a decentralized, multi-polar approach to AI development rather than a monolithic export model. It is the aspirational endpoint of [[concept-localized-ai-execution]] and the whole vault's thesis in one image: *many codebases, local soil*.