Multinational Microsoft to install its first artificial intelligence and internet lab in Latin America in Uruguay He hopes to become a “conductor” for more businesses abroad to “thrive” abroad.

As Rashmi Misra, General Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at Microsoft Lab, told a news conference this Thursday, It is expected that the center, which will be installed at the Uruguay Technology Laboratory (LATU), in Montevideo.Sphere of promotion of at least 300 projects in three years.

Misra, who visited various organizations, universities and startups in Uruguay this week, said he was “excited” by what would happen in the South American country, where the tech giant has agreed to set up a third AI & IoT Insider lab outside the United States. States, after Munich (Germany) and Shanghai (China).

“We saw an environment that was very conducive to innovation from the very beginning, from very young children who have access to technology who really want to continue their education and also graduate from schools on a very solid foundation, which really speeds up the process. “Innovation for startups,” he said.

Misra, who stressed that Uruguay’s company, founded 47 years ago by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, attracted the most attention, was the stimulus created by Plan Ceibal in 2007 in Nicolas Negroponte’s Uruguay model “one computer per child”. Generated in young people who are currently innovating from their own companies.

Thus, Misra, who attended the conference with Microsoft’s Uruguay General Manager Alejandro Pazo, stressed that with the help of his engineers, Hopes the lab will see the “prosperity” of “startups” in a few years with a “faster” exit to the market. In areas such as agriculture or energy sustainability.

“Hopefully, we will be able to push this innovation center in Uruguay and Latin America,” he said.

For his part, Uruguayan Presidential Secretary Alvaro Delgado stressed that The agreement was a product of exchange with the multinational“In Record Time.”

“This agreement, which was signed 15 days ago, is starting to be accessed, channeled and implemented in our country today,” he said, noting that the first negotiations with Microsoft took place in October 2021 and the parties signed the agreement in early June. During the last American Summit, in Los Angeles.

He, who is one of the strongest executives of Luis Lacalle Pou (center right), said it was a “pride” for the country for Microsoft to bet on Uruguay.

“The technological future goes hand in hand with artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. The fact that Uruguay is one of the centers of global development in this area is clearly a matter of pride for the national government. “And for the whole of Uruguay,” he said.

In the same vein, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining Omar Paganini, who attended a meeting in Los Angeles before the president stayed in Uruguay because of COVID-19, noted that the Uruguayan technological ecosystem has “received credentials”. But now it is his turn to “make the leap” to the “new technological wave.”

(Reported by EFE)

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