Mexico set to launch its own AI language model backed by Nvidia

Mexico is moving connected an artificial quality (AI) connection exemplary to assistance the state integrate into the caller data-based planetary economical order, Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced connected Tuesday. 

The announcement came during the presumption of the upcoming Mexico IA+ Accelerated Investment planetary event, scheduled to instrumentality spot successful Mexico City connected Nov. 12 and 13. 

Marcio Aguiar, Latin America manager of the tech elephantine Nvidia, confirmed his company’s collaboration successful the Mexican AI project. (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

Backed by the elephantine exertion institution Nvidia, the lawsuit volition service arsenic the superior motorboat level for Mexico’s artificial quality project, including the presumption of its ample connection exemplary (LLM). 

“AI is the modern alphabet,” Ebrard said. “Either we hurry up and maestro that alphabet, oregon it’s going to beryllium a immense disadvantage [for us] successful the caller satellite statement we’re seeing look today.”

This AI inaugural follows President Claudia Sheinbaum’s announcement regarding the upcoming motorboat of the National Artificial Intelligence Laboratory arsenic 1 of the 18 actions outlined successful Plan México. Sheinbaum has stressed that concern and technological and technological improvement are a cardinal portion of her administration.  

Meanwhile, Marcio Aguiar, Nvidia’s manager for Latin America, confirmed the company’s collaboration successful the Mexican AI task done grooming to make specialized talent. 

“It is indispensable for the state to bid radical truthful that it tin beryllium much competitory globally and, obviously, presumption Mexico arsenic 1 of the main players,” Aguiar said. He besides explained that the exemplary volition gully information from Mexican civilization and history. 

According to Ebrard, Mexico has 2 cardinal advantages for the planetary exertion sector: a young workforce anxious to participate the industry, and 5.5 cardinal economical units that tin link with this talent, according to information from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). 

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— Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) July 29, 2025

The government’s ambition is to marque its AI task accessible to implicit 5 cardinal assemblage students and much than 5 cardinal businesses, with the anticipation of seeing “visible and tangible results” successful 2 years’ time, Ebrard said. 

However, capable infrastructure is needed to enactment this initiative. 

According to the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), concern successful information centers could scope US $9.2 billion, perchance generating up to $27 cardinal successful indirect economical impact. Adriana Rivera Cerecedo, manager of the Mexican Data Center Association, told quality bureau EFE that this means installing much than 70 information centers offering colocation oregon unreality services.

Currently, the ample connection models (LLM) assemblage is dominated by companies similar OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, each based successful the United States. Other countries person developed their ain LLMs, including France with Mistral, China with DeepSeek and Chile with LatamGPT. 

LatamGPT is intended arsenic a collaborative determination task developed by the National Center for Artificial Intelligence successful Chile (CENIA) and besides supported by Mexico and Nvidia. 

With reports from Expansión, El Informador, El Financiero and EFE