Latin America seeks its own AI with shared infrastructure amid Big Tech dominance
Specialists from ECLAC, the IDB and the tech industry proposed at the presentation of the 2026 Latin American Artificial Intelligence Index (ILIA) expanding regional AI capacity through infrastructure shared among countries and common rules for using data in research. The report notes that the five reference countries average 244.7 GPUs per million inhabitants, versus 8.5 in Latin America, and that Brazil accounts for 87.7% of the identified GPUs and 92% of regional processing capacity.
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- Reference countries in the ILIA have 244.7 GPUs per million inhabitants; Latin America has 8.5
- Brazil holds 87.7% of the identified GPUs and 92% of regional processing capacity
- Mexico accounts for about 2% of registered processors and ranks eighth regionally with 52 points out of 100
IASummary generated by artificial intelligence from a story by El Economista. It may contain errors: the original source prevails.




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