LatamGPT lead to keynote Tapia 2026 on building Latin America's first foundation model
OmarUFlorez · x · 2026-09-03
Omar U. Florez will join the 2026 CMD-IT/Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in Atlanta as a Ken Kennedy Distinguished Lecturer. His talk, "Beyond Translation: Lessons from Building Latin America's First Foundation Model," reflects on training an open foundation model in Latin America — data, language, culture, compute, benchmarks, and capabilities required to build AI at scale — and poses a bigger question: who gets to build the intelligence the rest of the world needs?
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