Chatgpt, Gemini, Claude, Llama, Deepseek. Today there are dozens of conversational models available to anyone. Some are open, others free. So why did Mexico decided to create its own? What can a national model contribute that Silicon Valley, Europe or Beijing giants do not contribute? The answer has less to do with technology and more with culture.
Mexico has announced the development of its own artificial intelligence language model with Mexican cultural identity and inclusion of indigenous languages.
When AI does not understand everything. The best known models of today are powerful and versatile, but were not designed to understand the linguistic and cultural diversity of all countries. Their training data prioritizes English and, although many other languages such as Spanish speak, usually sin of low sensitivity to local expressions or original languages.
A recent study by IDB Lab, Llyc and Microsoft shows that only 54% of the responses in indigenous languages were correct (the remaining 46% presented errors or mixtures of languages). In particular, in Maya and Quiché the understanding and expression barely reached 1.25/10, while in Nahuatl it was 3.42/10 and in Guaraní 2.77/10
What did the Mexican government say. The Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, announced that Mexico will present in November (12 and 13, Expo Santa Fe, CDMX) the advances in its own language during the “Mexico ia + accelerated investment” forum. “If we do not hurry to dominate that alphabet, we will face a very significant disadvantage in this new context that is emerging today,” he said.
Who does it and how much it costs. The Ministry of Economy, under the direction of Marcelo Ebrard, heads the initiative with the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) and with the technological support of Nvidia, which will provide training and hardware without investing capital in the project. According to the CCE, the construction of the data centers will require an approximate investment of 9,000 million dollars.
What will the model be like. The model plans to train with cultural data from Mexico, Mexican Spanish and active indigenous languages. Mexico recognizes 68 linguistic groups and 364 variants (INALI), forces Corpus’s fine collection and healing work.
What are other countries doing. In Latin America, a coalition of countries will launch Latam-GPT in September 2025, led by Cenia (Chile) with the support of more than 30 institutions. It is born to represent regional cultural and linguistic diversity and functions as a regional collaborative project. In Europe, Spain promotes alia, a public infrastructure of models in Spanish and co -official languages.
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