
Yang Li
Chinese scriptwriter
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Sep 10, 2026
Rethink... who owns our technology
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Ben AnsellHOST
Yang Li says that there are also worries that American models are currently artificially cheap for paying customers.
Building Sovereign AI: Yang Li, CEO of Cosine on AI Models, Coding Agents and the UK's Frontier AI Future
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Yang LiGUEST
So I think we'd like to say we have earned the right to call ourselves an AI model lab.

Yang LiGUEST
We definitely started our life as post-training and customizing other people's models, whether it's a Chinese open source model or we were very early sort of partners with OpenAI to, you know, even post-train GPT-4.

Yang LiGUEST
Been fortunate enough to deal with directly with Sam Altman and a lot of the senior guys there.

Yang LiGUEST
We started our life customizing models to focus on what our customers wanted, right? For us, because we've always wanted to build AI-enabled coding tools and workflows and make software engineers' lives better, we essentially started doubling down and making models better at navigating complex code bases, undocumented or underdocumented code bases, legacy coding languages.
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Hector MasonHOST
I wanna just ask you what you think Sovereign AI means for our country and for any country going after it.
36. How has gaming become public media's new frontier?
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Yang LiGUEST
So what place does PTS have in the world of VTubing? There's two kinds of job or works we do.
Can Cosine really build the UK’s first sovereign AI model?
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Mike ButcherHOST
So it's really going to be quite different from, say, the cloud AI providers that are out there at the moment.

Yang LiGUEST
But I think for people who are concerned in terms of compliance, in terms of cost, you know, it's on-prem sort of AI models are becoming more in focus, right? I think anyone who's been following the news can see the, not quite panic, the concern about token costs accelerating, right? Uber came out this month to say, you know, they blew their entire year's budget in a single quarter.

Yang LiGUEST
The good thing about having an on-prem AI is that, you know, once you've invested, the capital cost of installing GPUs, you know, you're capped.

Yang LiGUEST
And actually, at that point, the more you use the models, actually, the cost per token decreases because it's a fixed cost.

Yang LiGUEST
Secondly, obviously, the compliance, there is this sectors or there are companies that will not feel comfortable with either using, you know, a cloud version or through sending their data through an API to be processed in the black box.
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Mike ButcherHOST
Do you think that perhaps you should maybe advise the government to ditch Palantir and get them out and take over from there?

