BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Chile connected Tuesday launched the archetypal open-source artificial quality connection exemplary trained connected the divers cultures of Latin America, aiming to amended bespeak determination realities and fortify the region’s beingness successful the planetary AI race.
Latam-GPT is the effect of a two-year determination effort led by the National Center of Artificial Intelligence of Chile, CENIA, and supported by implicit 30 institutions crossed 8 Latin American countries.
“Artificial quality is the top technological gyration of caller times, and from Latin America and the Caribbean, it is strategical and urgent that we play a role,” Chilean President Gabriel Boric said Tuesday aft the launch, noting that the caller strategy volition beryllium cardinal to adding Latin American information and individuality to AI.
Announced astatine the February 2025 Artificial Intelligence Action Summit successful Paris, the task launched successful aboriginal 2023 to code linguistic biases successful models trained chiefly connected English data. Rather than competing straight with user tools similar ChatGPT oregon Google Gemini, Latam-GPT acts arsenic a foundational infrastructure for aboriginal determination applications.
“Latam-GPT is trained with a proportionality of Latin American information that antecedently did not beryllium online and was not included successful existing models,” said Rodrigo Durán, enforcement manager astatine CENIA. “This allows for much accurate, close and businesslike show erstwhile it comes to Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Latam-GPT is trained connected information from backstage sources obtained done strategical partnerships crossed the region, arsenic good arsenic synthetic information utilized to code areas identified arsenic underrepresented, said Gabriela Arriagada, a researcher astatine CENIA and caput of the project’s morals team. Developing Latam-GPT required collecting much than 8 terabytes of data, equivalent to millions of books.
“When we speech astir incorporating Latin American culture, we are referring to a grooming attack designed to code information that reflects taste realities, identifying wherever gaps beryllium successful different models, knowing their shortcomings, and gradually gathering cognition to amended that representation,” Arriagada added.
Latam-GPT is simply a “very important milestone for Latin America,” arsenic it contains information that captures each country’s particularities, said Luis Chiruzzo, an engineering prof astatine the University of the Republic successful Uruguay not progressive with the project.
“That provides immoderate assurance that, astatine the precise least, everyone is included successful the training,” Chiruzzo added.
For now, the task volition run chiefly successful Spanish and Portuguese, with plans to incorporated Indigenous languages successful aboriginal stages.
The improvement of Latam-GPT means the portion present has the method capableness to physique AI models, according to Durán, the enforcement manager astatine CENIA.
“The information that Latin America has travel unneurotic to signifier a collaborative radical is simply a precise affirmative sign. It shows that Latin America tin make and recognize however to make this technology, which besides has important implications for regulation, due to the fact that you cannot modulate thing you bash not understand,” helium added.
Chiruzzo believes it volition beryllium hard for Latam-GPT to vie with larger corporations with greater resources.
“Still, it’s an important measurement guardant and volition marque it imaginable to commencement positioning ourselves successful the satellite of connection models with our ain voice,” Chiruzzo said.
The contention for AI enactment has led countries to rethink their policies and initiatives for processing AI technologies. The United States, China and the European Union person much than fractional the world’s astir almighty information centers to make and enactment AI systems, according to information published by Oxford University. Africa and South America person astir nary AI hubs, according to the report.
Chile has been racing to grow its relation successful the AI roar implicit the past fewer years by attracting caller endowment and gathering caller information centers. In June past year, President Boric said successful his State of the Union code that the state indispensable clasp AI, adding that a “country that does not put successful artificial quality risks falling down successful tomorrow’s planetary landscape.”
Latam-GPT was developed with conscionable $550,000 successful backing from CENIA’s fund and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). The squad utilized Amazon Web Services’ unreality to make its archetypal version, which volition beryllium launched astatine the extremity of February. The consequent versions volition beryllium trained connected a supercomputer astatine the University of Tarapacá successful bluish Chile, which costs astir $4.5 million, starting successful the archetypal semester of 2026.
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