Latest
  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Latest / Government and geopolitics

ProgrammeGovernmentComputeBrazilReported

Brazil’s science council hands Lula an AI plan worth R$23bn for 2024 to 2028

See how this story connects

Source: Mobile Time: PBIA plan delivered to LulaAlso reported by SBT News

Brazil’s National Council of Science and Technology approved the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Plan (PBIA), titled “IA para o Bem de Todos”, on 29 July 2024 and delivered it to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 30 July at the 5th National Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation. The plan proposes R$23.03bn of investment over 2024 to 2028 across 54 actions, including a supercomputer the government wants among the world’s five most powerful.

Why it matters

Brazilian researchers and public services got a proposed federal AI plan with R$23bn of planned investment, giving Brazil a programme for domestic compute and models alongside its pending AI bill.

When
30 Jul 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0115
Where
Brazil
Who
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, National Council of Science and Technology; Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Mobile Time and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Mobile Time

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Earlier in this Storyline: What led hereBrazil Senate President Pacheco files AI bill PL 2338/2023

Data to measure this

Compare the years before 2024 with the years since in these series.

  • OECD.AI: venture capital investments in AI start-upsOECD.AI (data from Preqin)Venture capital invested in AI start-ups by country and industry, with series for generative AI and AI compute start-ups.live · query tool
  • Epoch AI: frontier AI data centresEpoch AISite-level timelines of IT power, compute (H100-equivalents) and capital cost for large AI data centres.live · download · CSV
  • Epoch AI: GPU clusters (archived)Epoch AIMore than 500 GPU clusters and AI supercomputers with country, owner, performance, power and cost.Years: 2019-2025 · one-off · download · CSV · Covers before and after
  • Crunchbase company and funding dataCrunchbase · paidPrivate company profiles, funding rounds and acquisitions.live · api · API
  • Dealroom AI sector dataDealroom.co · paidAI start-ups, unicorns and venture funding by country, city, stage and sub-sector.live · query tool
  • IEA Energy and AI dataInternational Energy AgencyWorld and regional data-centre capacity, power usage effectiveness, load factor and electricity use.download · XLSX

All data for Brazil

Cite this story

WTA-N-2024-0115: “Brazil’s science council hands Lula an AI plan worth R$23bn for 2024 to 2028.” wheresthe.ai, 30 Jul 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/br-pbia-national-ai-plan-2024-07/ (source: Mobile Time: PBIA plan delivered to Lula).

Spotted an error? Email [email protected].