Brazil launches AI supercomputer push while balancing US and Chinese tech

Brazil will invest about 2. 3bn reais ($444. 2m) to bolster its artificial intelligence ecosystem, splitting projects between United States and Chinese tech firms in a strategic move that underscores its efforts to balance ties with both superpowers. Just more than half the total, 1. 3bn reais ($251m), will fund a supercomputing infrastructure project in Rio de Janeiro developed in partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies and iFlytek, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ‘s government said on Thursday.

The government has announced investments of about 2. 3 billion reais ($444. 2m) to bolster its AI ecosystem.

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