NVIDIA Hosts Inaugural AI Day in São Paulo, Highlighting Brazil’s Push for Sovereign AI
The conference featured technical labs from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and sessions on building AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs).
RMN Digital AI Desk
New Delhi | February 13, 2026
SÃO PAULO — More than 500 developers, researchers, and startup founders gathered in January for the first-ever NVIDIA AI Day São Paulo, a landmark event marking the latest stop in NVIDIA’s global tour to foster artificial intelligence ecosystems. The conference centered on the strategic importance of sovereign AI, emphasizing how Brazil can utilize local data and infrastructure to achieve technological autonomy and economic growth.
The event aligns with the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Plan (2024-2028), titled “AI for the Good of All,” which outlines over 50 initiatives to modernize public services and industry. To support these goals, the Brazilian government intends to invest approximately $4 billion through 2028, focusing on AI infrastructure, professional qualification, and business innovation.
“NVIDIA solutions are fundamental to all the technologies we develop,” stated Paulo Perez, cofounder and CEO of the biotech startup Biofy. Perez highlighted that analyzing complex DNA data—which typically takes a significant amount of time using traditional CPUs—is accelerated by hundreds of times using NVIDIA’s GPUs and frameworks.
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Industry Leaders Drive Local Innovation: The conference featured technical labs from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and sessions on building AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs). Key regional partners demonstrated localized applications of these technologies:
- WideLabs presented its new AI synthetic data pipeline, Nemotron Personas Brazil, and discussed building sovereign AI platforms with stringent safety requirements.
- Amadeus AI showcased cost-effective methods for fine-tuning LLMs for specific languages using reinforcement learning.
- Langflow shared best practices for combining its platform with NVIDIA technology to build robust, business-aligned AI agents.
Expanding the Ecosystem: To further accelerate these efforts, NVIDIA has partnered with Claro, which has become the first NVIDIA Cloud Partner in Latin America. This partnership is expected to provide the high-performance computing infrastructure necessary for students and researchers at top universities to fuel the nation’s AI future.
Howard Wright, vice president of the startups ecosystem at NVIDIA, told attendees that sovereign AI empowers Brazil to unlock its national potential and maintain leadership in the regional AI landscape. Moving forward, the developer ecosystem in the region will continue to prioritize innovation in healthcare, financial services, and linguistic diversity through accelerated computing.
