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Chile launches Latam-GPT, an open regional language model of about 70bn parameters

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Source: Radio Universidad de ChileAlso reported by CNN Chile

Chile’s government and the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) launched Latam-GPT on 10 February 2026, an open language model of nearly 70bn parameters built with the development bank CAF and Amazon Web Services. It was trained on an 18-terabyte corpus of Spanish, Portuguese and English text gathered through more than 50 partnerships in 15 countries of the region.

Why it matters

Latin American governments and developers gain an open model trained on regional text, an alternative base for local services that do not want to depend on US or Chinese models.

When
10 Feb 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0113
Who
CENIA, CAF, Amazon Web Services, Government of Chile

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Radio Universidad de Chile 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 Radio Universidad de Chile

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

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WTA-N-2026-0113: “Chile launches Latam-GPT, an open regional language model of about 70bn parameters.” wheresthe.ai, 10 Feb 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cl-latam-gpt-open-model-launch-2026-02/ (source: Radio Universidad de Chile).

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