Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-launches-ai-supercomputer-push-splits-projects-between-chinese-us-firms-2026-08-20/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260820/i48.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260820/p48#a260820p48" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Marcela Ayres / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-launches-ai-supercomputer-push-splits-projects-between-chinese-us-firms-2026-08-20/">Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Brazil's government announced on Thursday investments of about 2.3 billion reais ($444.2 million) to bolster its artificial intelligence ecosystem &hellip; </p>