Counterpoint: adapted models account for the majority of the sovereign LLM build mix at 56% share, driven by $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$  Llama, which is the most preferred US open-source foundation for sovereign-adapted LLMs and captures a sizeable 38% share. Notably, the Llama LLM family stands as the dominant base across all the regions assessed in our research.

In the first two parts of this analysis, we introduced our study and evaluated more than 170 models, spanning over 55 active sovereign LLM nations across the Middle East, Central & Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC, excluding China), Central Asia, Africa, North America (Canada, ex-US), and CALA, to understand how nations outside the US and China are competing to build domestic LLM capabilities and AI infrastructure.

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