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Don’t Chase Frontier AI Models, World Bank Tells Low & Middle Income Countries

A pupil points to a literacy chart during a lesson at a primary school in [location TK]. The World Bank's World Development Report 2026 identifies education as one of the sectors where low-cost AI tools could help close skill and knowledge gaps in developing economies. Credit: World Bank Archives

The World Bank’s first comprehensive assessment of AI’s implications for developing economies argues that frontier models are the hardest and costliest path. Poorer countries, it says, should adapt existing low-cost tools to local languages and conditions.