Taiwan President President Lai Ching-te has promulgated the Taiwan AI Basic Act which becomes effective from 14 January 2026. The Act promotes specific priorities, including allocating a generous AI budget, implementing AI industry subsidies and preferential measures, providing a friendly environment for innovation experimentation, promoting talent exchange and infrastructure building, and establishing a data governance mechanism, in order to create an innovative and friendly ecosystem for Taiwan’s AI industry. Following enactment, the government will continue to act as an inter-ministerial coordination platform in guiding Taiwan to go beyond its semiconductor advantage to the integration of hardware and software.
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