How Latin America Built Its Own AI Model for $550K | Rodrigo Duran Rojas, LatamGPT

How do you build sovereign AI without the compute and budgets of the world’s biggest AI labs? Sanjay Puri speaks with Rodrigo Duran Rojas, Executive Director of Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (SENIA), about LatamGPT—an open large language model built by 60+ institutions across 15 countries with a compute budget of roughly $550,000. They explore AI sovereignty, regional data, continuous pre-training, indigenous languages, compute constraints, enterprise AI adoption, and what it really takes to build AI capability from the ground up.