{"id":243062,"date":"2026-07-14T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/portugals-amalia-treats-ai-as-a-public-good\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:50:12","slug":"portugals-amalia-treats-ai-as-a-public-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/portugals-amalia-treats-ai-as-a-public-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal&#8217;s AMALIA treats AI as a public good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piie.com\/blogs\/realtime-economics\/2026\/portugals-amalia-treats-ai-public-good\">Portugal&#8217;s AMALIA treats AI as a public good<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piie.com\/blogs\/realtime-economics\/2026\/portugals-amalia-treats-ai-public-good\">https:\/\/www.piie.com\/blogs\/realtime-economics\/2026\/portugals-amalia-treats-ai-public-good<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 08:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.piie.com\">www.piie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Europe is pursuing an alternative path to AI dominance compared to the competitive rivalry between the United States and China, aiming to view AI as a public good.<\/li>\n<li>Portugal launched AMALIA, an open-source AI model named after a renowned cultural icon, intended to develop independence from dominant US AI companies while preserving local language and culture.<\/li>\n<li>AMALIA, developed by a consortium led by NOVA University Lisbon with public funding, is not meant for direct public use but as a foundational model for tailored applications by various institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike private US models, AMALIA\u2019s open-source nature ensures it can serve multiple sectors without diminishing benefits, fitting the concept of a public good.<\/li>\n<li>The EU approach contrasts sharply with the US model, which treats AI as a private good with proprietary, commercially restricted systems.<\/li>\n<li>Portugal\u2019s investment in AMALIA reflects a broader goal to secure national autonomy in AI, highlighting the public investment principle similar to past US government-funded public utilities.<\/li>\n<li>While public provision of AMALIA carries risks, the investment at roughly \u20ac7 million is seen as a low-cost acquisition of a foundational public stake in a critical emerging technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s AMALIA treats AI as a public good https:\/\/www.piie.com\/blogs\/realtime-economics\/2026\/portugals-amalia-treats-ai-public-good Publish Date: 2026-07-14 08:49:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.piie.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-07\/MT1ZUMA000JR0T5C-wo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243064,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243062\/revisions\/243064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}