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Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American

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Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. “The strategy is not to depend on a single company, technology or country,” the Lula government said in setting out the plan, which is an unusually direct statement of what most countries do quietly. The Chinese half is the larger one. Huawei Technologies and the speech-recognition company iFlytek will build a 1.3bn reais system in Rio de Janeiro, worth roughly $251m and intended for training large language models, with…

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