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In Delhi, American leadership framed AI sovereignty as adopting best-in-class technologies and building national capability atop them, rather than striving for full self-sufficiency. If that vision is going to succeed globally, it must first take root among America's closest partners. Canada and Mexico each bring distinct strengths to this effort—Canada's world-class research and a maturing AI startup ecosystem, and Mexico's advanced manufacturing base and growing digital economy—alongside different adoption barriers and regulatory trajectories.

This discussion considered how North America can serve as the proving ground for the U.S. administration's vision of sovereign AI partnership: accelerating adoption, bolstering supply chain resilience, aligning export controls and security standards, and demonstrating how the American AI stack empowers partners.