Chile Has Bold Tech Ambitions
Far from Silicon Valley, a digital niche is taking shape, with AI-driven initiatives and a data center boom.
This article is adapted from AQ’s upcoming special report on Guatemala. SANTIAGO — As China’s AI dark horse DeepSeek was trampling U.S. tech stocks in late January, this corner of South America lit up. “I think it’s phenomenal,” said David Laroze, a Chilean physicist who heads up a $10 million supercomputing project in the Atacama Desert. “The more competition there is, the more widespread these language models become, the more we can learn and improve.” Beyond its expanding number of data centers, Chile has new AI initiatives, large language models (LLMs), and...
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