Rev Lebaredian joins MTS to discuss NVIDIA's AI factory design in Armenia, the concept of sovereign AI and national compute independence, and how infrastructure investment can transform a country's technical capabilities. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:01:04) What Is Operating in Hrazdan Today

(00:01:29) What DSX Changes in Factory Design

(00:03:59) First Consumers of the Initial Compute Capacity

(00:06:01) Why Every Nation Needs Local Compute

(00:07:41) Defining Sovereign AI and the Five-Layer Cake

(00:10:36) How Compute Changes Armenia's Trajectory

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Compute Is the New Power Grid | Rev Lebaredian

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Compute Is the New Power Grid | Rev Lebaredian