Brazil launches AI supercomputer push, splits projects between Chinese, US firms
The plan includes a supercomputer expected to rank among the world’s 10 most powerful AI machines and new semiconductor and cloud projects.
- On Thursday, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government announced 2.3 billion reais in investments to bolster Brazil's artificial intelligence ecosystem, splitting projects between U.S. and Chinese companies.
- Seeking to avoid dependence on a single technology or country, the government is funding a 1.3 billion reais supercomputing infrastructure project in Rio in partnership with China's Huawei Technologies and iFlytek.
- Separately, about 1 billion reais will be allocated through a tender for a supercomputer in Rio Grande do Norte, which officials expect to rank among the world's 10 most powerful AI processing machines.
- Science and Technology Minister Luciana Santos told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper last week that Nvidia will supply the tender hardware, while the government announced a partnership with Spain to develop semiconductors and cloud-computing services.
- Running for re-election later this year, Lula faces opposition from Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, who has pledged closer ties with President Donald Trump, shaping the political stakes around Brazil's technological autonomy.
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It is about investments of 380 million euros. A good half of it flows into a project with Chinese companies. The US chip company Nvidia also wants to win a tender for itself.
Equipment will be one of the largest processors in the world
Brazil launches AI supercomputer push, splits projects between Chinese, US firms
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's government announced on Thursday investments of about 2.3 billion reais ($444.2 million) to bolster its artificial intelligence ecosystem, splitting projects between U.S. and Chinese companies in a...
The Lula government announced the purchase of a supercomputer specialized in developing artificial intelligence worth R$ 1 billion and a strategic agreement of R$ 1.2 billion to train experts and transfer technology from China to Brazil.
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