SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Latam GPT, the first open-source artificial intelligence model developed in Latin America, has begun training and is processing more than 1 billion documents ahead of its planned launch at the end of the year.
The project is a large language model coordinated in Chile by the National Center for Artificial Intelligence , or Cenia, in partnership with Brazil. Financial support comes from the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean.
It will differ from models such as ChatGPT, Claude.ai and Gemini because it was not built on English. The open-source model is designed to reflect Latin America's culture, language and history, and aims to preserve Indigenous languages such as Mapudungun and Rapa Nui, as well as regional dialects.
"The context it provides should be stronger because it has been trained on more data from the region. If I need to ask something about Latin America and the Caribbean, Latam GPT should perform better than other models because it will have more data on that," Rodrigo Durán, general manager of Cenia, a private nonprofit founded by Chilean universities, told UPI.
Durán stressed the importance of preserving local languages and dialects.
