While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models. Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted developers in Latin America, is seeing a new surge in […]
Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once appeared as rare and mythical as a true unicorn. Today, however, the region is home to several startups that have reached billion-dollar valuations. Some of these startups, propelled into the spotlight by cross-border expansion, are […]
Brazil’s hugely successful digital payment system Pix turns five. BY LATINVEX STAFF Just as investor sentiment was picking up in Ecuador after the re-election of Daniel Noboa in April, a defeat in a key referendum is seen as a new setback for the young president’s ambitious reform agenda. Ecuador’s sovereign bonds—which had been among the […]
Business groups express support for USMCA in letter to USTR. BY LATINVEX STAFF Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Paraguay are all candidates for upgrades to investment grade, but still need to overcome challenges such as stronger growth, improved governance, and deeper revenue bases and local funding flexibility, Fitch Ratings says. As of today, only […]
The Middle East just became the newest battlefield in the U.S.-China artificial intelligence war. The Commerce Department’s approval of 70,000 advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia marks a turning point in the technology competition between the U.S. and China. The UAE’s AI company G42 and Saudi Arabia’s Humain will each […]
For the past several months, my social media feed has been flooded with people bragging about spinning up apps and websites over a weekend without any engineering help or coding — with just vibes. Vibe coding is simply using regular language to describe your intentions to an artificial intelligence bot, which then generates the code. […]
The United Arab Emirates aims to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, and its latest investment is a new research lab in Silicon Valley. The state-run Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, named after the president of the UAE, has opened a satellite lab in Sunnyvale, California, recruiting researchers from top U.S. universities and […]
For Angel Xiao, a Chinese operations strategist who lives in Mexico City’s Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, it’s easy to satisfy her cravings for food that reminds her of home. That’s because authentic Chinese food options in Nuevo Polanco, an upper-class cluster of corporate buildings, high-rise apartments, and luxury stores, are everywhere. She can grab a bowl […]
Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Hot on the heels of its viral image generator DALL-E, the Sam Altman-helmed company’s chatbot quickly attracted millions of visitors and was heralded as a transformative technology. Today, ChatGPT has some 800 million weekly users, and supports more than 20 languages. After the U.S., countries […]
In recent months, there has been frenzied debate about whether the U.S. government’s unfavorable outlook toward immigration would curtail foreign student enrollments in U.S. universities and scale back overseas talent in American tech companies. Many predicted that these measures would hit candidates of Indian origin the hardest. India is the source of the largest cohort […]