Data 2026-07

Sovereign AI

Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.

Sovereign programme record · Philippines

Philippines: NAICRI (National AI Center for Research and Innovation) + DOST-ASTI COARE/Saliksik HPC: — announced · disbursement not on record

Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.

Announced—
No headline figure on record.
Government-only floor—
Not decomposed — the record does not separate government money from the headline.
Committed—
No commitment figure on record.
Disbursed—
No disbursement figure on record.

The reconciliation. Four figures on one dollar scale, each bar a share of the largest. The reality ratio above divides disbursed by the announced headline, and the field it divides by is stated so the division is reproducible. A hatched track is an absent figure carried with its reason — a government that does not publish disbursement is a finding, not a zero. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Pipeline stage: Deployed (primary-verified evidence) — 22 accelerators tracked. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.

Hardware on record

Model	Count	Status	Owner
NVIDIA Tesla A100	16	operational	DOST-ASTI (COARE Saliksik HPC: 2 nodes x 8 GPUs)
NVIDIA Tesla P40	6	operational	DOST-ASTI (COARE Saliksik HPC: 6 nodes x 1 GPU)

External dependence

US technology: high · TSMC fabrication: high · NVIDIA hardware: high · BIS jurisdiction reach: high. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.

Named partners: DOST (Department of Science and Technology), DOST-ASTI (Advanced Science and Technology Institute), NAICRI, COARE (Computing and Archiving Research Environment), PREGINET, NVIDIA.

The Philippines' sovereign-AI position is institutional-first, compute-modest. (1) NAICRI, launched 2026-02-26 at the Manila Hotel, is 'the country's central institutional anchor for AI research, advanced computing, and innovation—providing continuity beyond individual projects and funding cycles', addressing 'fragmented infrastructure, limited data availability' (DOST-ASTI's own event page); 'NAICRI is anchored at DOST-ASTI but designed as a national center' (PIA). (2) The compute layer is DOST-ASTI's COARE; its Saliksik HPC comprises 36 CPU nodes (88 logical CPUs, 500 GB RAM each), 6 NVIDIA Tesla P40 nodes (1 GPU each), and 2 NVIDIA Tesla A100 nodes (8 GPUs each, 128 CPUs, 1 TB RAM) — 22 GPUs total, per the operator's own wiki. (3) Adjacent operational platforms showcased at the NAICRI launch: PREGINET (research/education network), NAIRA (AI-as-a-Service hub), DIMER (shared AI-model repository). COARE has powered FASSSTER pandemic surveillance, IRRI rice genome sequencing, climate modeling, and hazard mapping. No consolidated budget figure published at tier 1-2.

What this record flags about itself · 6

The COARE Saliksik hardware specification comes from the operator's own wiki (coarewiki.asti.dost.gov.ph/en/using-coare/hpc). That page is undated current-state documentation and states no hardware deployment dates, so the vintage is recorded as the access date, 2026-07-18. The compute-capacity figures are taken from that primary document rather than from secondary coverage.
The total sovereign research accelerator fleet is 22 GPUs, 16 A100 and 6 P40 — a research-support environment, orders of magnitude below regional sovereign clusters, against Thailand's 704 A100 for comparison. The record stands because the institutional layer (NAICRI) and the government-owned compute are both genuine, but it should not be read as implying frontier-scale capacity.
No program budget figure was found at tier 1 or 2, so no announced figure is recorded. NAICRI launch coverage carries no consolidated funding number.
The COARE utilization figure reported by PIA — 'GPU utilization increasing 54 percent since 2020 and more than doubling in the past year' — is a government news-agency statistic without disclosed base figures. It is context only, and is not carried as a metric.
The 'high' rating for BIS jurisdiction reach is a Scrutica analytic classification, not a sourced statement: the fleet is entirely US-origin NVIDIA silicon, so BIS re-export jurisdiction attaches.
This record covers the government research-compute and institutional layer only. It is distinct from the commercial Philippine data-center buildout, whose colocation sites are carried separately in the facilities catalog from PeeringDB and OpenStreetMap.

The evidence trail

3 cited sources

DOST-ASTI COARE wiki, HPC page (operator documentation) — Saliksik HPC layout: 'CPU nodes x 36. Every node has: 88 logical CPUs (86 usable), 500 GB RAM'; 'P40 nodes x 6 … NVIDIA Tesla P40 GPU x 1'; 'A100 nodes x 2 … NVIDIA Tesla A100 GPU x 8'; page undated, current-state — Primary source · accessed 2026-07-18
DOST-ASTI event page — NAICRI launch '26 February 2026 … at Manila Hotel'; 'central institutional anchor for AI research, advanced computing, and innovation' — Primary source · accessed 2026-07-18
Philippine Information Agency (government news agency), by DOST, 2026-02-23 — NAICRI-COARE relationship ('NAICRI is anchored at DOST-ASTI'; COARE 'the national supercomputing facility'), utilization context — Primary source · accessed 2026-07-18

Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.