🌎 Top Trending AI Platforms & Categories for South America (2026 Forecast)
The market will be dominated by cloud-native platforms that provide the essential infrastructure and specialized AI services, as well as productivity tools seeing high consumer and enterprise uptake.
☁️ Hyperscaler AI Platforms
These global tech giants are key players, as they are expanding their cloud infrastructure (like new Azure and Google Cloud regions) in Latin America, which lowers latency and unlocks complex AI workloads.
- Google Cloud (Vertex AI / Gemini): Google’s AI offerings are highly relevant. The Gemini multimodal models are seeing rapid global adoption, and the Vertex AI platform offers the comprehensive machine learning tools needed for building and deploying enterprise solutions, which is vital as companies move from pilot to production.
- Microsoft (Azure OpenAI Service / Copilot): Microsoft is aggressively expanding its AI tools, including Azure OpenAI Service, which gives businesses access to models like GPT-4. Copilot (integrated into Microsoft 365) is a major productivity driver in corporate environments, which will increase adoption of its underlying AI platforms.
- Amazon (AWS Bedrock / Sagemaker): AWS remains a dominant cloud provider. AWS Bedrock offers a service for building generative AI applications using various foundation models, and Sagemaker is its core platform for end-to-end machine learning, supporting the high demand for AI talent and development services in the region.
🤖 Generative AI and Productivity Tools
As the region is noted for being the third-largest market worldwide for generative AI application downloads, general-purpose and specialized LLMs will continue to trend.
- OpenAI (ChatGPT/GPT-4o): Despite not having its own cloud infrastructure, ChatGPT is a major catalyst for consumer and business awareness and adoption. Its rapid feature releases, like GPT-4o, continue to drive initial AI usage, especially in countries like Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.
- Anthropic (Claude): As enterprises prioritize models for long-form reasoning and professional, structured outputs, Claude is a strong contender, often used for complex document analysis and internal knowledge bases.
- Perplexity: This knowledge-based research engine is gaining traction globally and in Latin America by providing evidence-backed answers with citations, making it a critical tool for professionals and students engaging in structured research.
🛠️ Localized and Domain-Specific Platforms
The growth is also fueled by local innovation, especially in high-impact sectors like FinTech and e-commerce.
- Omie (Fintech/ERP AI – Brazil): This Brazilian unicorn is integrating AI into its SME management platform, merging enterprise resource planning (ERP) with financial services. This shows the trend of applying AI to automate high-value, domain-specific workflows.
- Blip (Conversational AI): Operating in multiple countries, Blip offers chatbot-driven communication tools that help businesses optimize digital interaction at scale, directly addressing the regional trend of businesses adopting AI chatbots and virtual assistants for customer service.
- Credibl (Sustainability AI): Focusing on the sustainable innovation trend, AI-powered software solutions like Credibl are used to support enterprises with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting and sustainability legislation, which is a growing priority due to the region’s vast natural resources.
- Agentic AI Platforms (Emerging): While not a single platform, the trend of Agentic AI—intelligent systems that can independently set goals and execute multi-step tasks—is predicted to drive the next era of enterprise integration and will be increasingly embedded within existing SaaS and developer platforms across all sectors.
The strong trajectory of AI adoption in Latin America is being driven by the availability of a deep pool of tech talent and a focused push for digital transformation in sectors like FinTech, Healthtech, Manufacturing, and Agriculture.
You can learn more about the broader economic and technological forces shaping the continent’s digital landscape in 2026. The 2026 Latin America Forecast
This video provides a forecast of trends for Latin America in 2026, which includes technology investment growth and other forces that will influence the AI platform landscape.
The 2026 Latin America Forecast – YouTube
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