Mexico Metropolis – Throughout his keynote on the Microsoft AI Tour 2024 in Mexico Metropolis, Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella introduced that Microsoft Company is reaffirming its dedication to the nation. He revealed a brand new investment of $1.3 billion over the subsequent three years to boost AI infrastructure and initiatives geared toward selling digital and AI abilities. This contains the Synthetic Intelligence Nationwide Abilities program, which goals to democratize entry to AI abilities and attain 5 million individuals. The investment will even work on bettering connectivity and encouraging AI adoption by small and medium-sized companies to speed up their digital transformation and enterprise operations throughout the nation.
Microsoft reaches its 38-years presence in Mexico seizing a pivotal second of alternative pushed by technology and synthetic intelligence. With a long-standing dedication to the nation and recognizing AI’s position as a catalyst for social and financial growth, Microsoft is increasing its AI infrastructure in Mexico. This includes a big investment to extend native computing capability and encourage innovation.
“We’re getting into a brand new period of AI with the promise to create inclusive financial growth and alternative throughout each position, business, and nation, together with in Mexico,” mentioned Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “Our investments in AI infrastructure and skilling in Mexico will assist guarantee individuals and organizations throughout the nation understand the advantages of this technology shift.”
Growth of AI Infrastructure in Mexico and innovation for the Mexican AI ecosystem
Microsoft reinforces its dedication to Mexican steady financial and social growth, highlighting the position of AI as a foundational technology with a transformative functionality to assist clear up societal issues, enhance human productiveness, cybersecurity, make firms extra aggressive and increase social and financial alternatives in the nation.
This infrastructure will function underneath Microsoft’s AI Access Principles which had been created to foster innovation and wholesome competitors throughout the quickly rising AI economic system. They replicate Microsoft’s increasing position and duty as a pacesetter in AI and commit the corporate to creating investments, forging enterprise partnerships, and creating programs that guarantee broad entry to its AI technology that empower organizations and people to develop and use AI in methods that can serve the general public good.
Corporations and training establishments like Grupo Bimbo, Tec de Monterrey and Cemex are profitable examples of AI adoption in Mexico. Tecnológico de Monterrey has developed Tecgpt, its personal platform with Microsoft generative AI, to enhance the educational course of and enhance effectivity and productiveness amongst college students, academics, and different workers, being one of many first of its variety in Latin America. Moreover, Cemex has applied Microsoft’s AI options that has considerably enhanced productiveness and operational effectivity, and has reworked varied enterprise areas, together with gross sales, manufacturing, and provide chain with the introduction of Technical Xpert, an AI-powered copilot.
Microsoft’s announcement contains the Synthetic Intelligence Nationwide Abilities Initiative, with the purpose of democratizing entry to AI abilities, coaching 5 million individuals in three years, partnering with governments, business, academia and civil society to coach customers, builders, academics, organizational leaders and extra, at scale. The corporate is growing a coaching platform geared toward job seekers and workers, offering assets aligned with labor market wants. Given the rise of generative AI in every day work, we’ll deal with this space to make it accessible to all and integral to on a regular basis duties in any job. This contains serving to medium and small firms perceive the AI capabilities their workers want for fulfillment and productiveness.
Based on a Microsoft examine: “AI in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises: tendencies, challenges, and alternatives in Mexico” in 2023, 57% of the SMBs surveyed in Mexico had been utilizing AI, primarily to enhance operational effectivity, make data-driven selections, and personalize the client expertise. Microsoft is investing in The Bridge Accelerator program to help regional SMBs and put together them to be built-in into the North American business worth chains through the implementation of an AI platform for SMBs (“PyMAIs”). This initiative will allow 30,000 SMBs in three years, to replace their enterprise practices, improve their market competitiveness, enhance their publicity to potential prospects and make them able to combine into cross-border provide networks.
Microsoft will proceed to speculate in the appliance of AI, by leveraging the AI for Good program, to handle well being, connectivity, and sustainability challenges in Mexico:
- Well being challenges: Retinopathy of prematurity (RoP) is a number one and preventable reason behind toddler blindness, significantly affecting untimely infants in the International South. The scarcity of pediatric ophthalmologists makes it difficult to diagnose RoP early. Microsoft AI for Good has developed AI fashions that run on smartphones, enabling docs in Mexico to diagnose RoP successfully.
- Connectivity: Microsoft and Viasat have expanded their November 2022 collaboration settlement to succeed in greater than 1.45 million individuals by the tip of 2025 in Mexico. This contains activating new networks to convey web to 150k+ Mexicans beforehand uncovered by mobile connectivity. This community growth is accompanied by Viasat’s female-led Mexico Ambassador Program, which companions with native ladies to assist bridge the gender digital divide. This presence is unfold throughout 13 central and southern states (Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Querétaro, Campeche, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca y San Luis Potosí). This initiative enhances Viasat’s ongoing work with “CFE Web para Todos”, the place Viasat has partnered with CFE by connecting greater than 1500 communities throughout Mexico.
- Sustainability is basically vital to Microsoft and is mirrored in our bold company targets to turn into carbon unfavourable, water constructive, and zero waste firm that protects ecosystems by 2030. At Microsoft, we design, construct, and function cloud computing infrastructure spanning the entire stack, from datacenters to servers to customized silicon. We design, construct, and function cloud computing infrastructure, with greater than 60 datacenter areas globally. This creates distinctive alternatives for orchestrating how every factor can work collectively to boost each efficiency, effectivity and sustainability.
Microsoft continues to judge and diligently work to handle sustainability and useful resource wants related to infrastructure growth. Microsoft has taken a first-mover strategy to our planning, making long-term investments to convey extra carbon-free electrical energy onto the grids the place we function. Our Energy Buy Agreements, or PPAs, are on the middle of our strategy. At the moment, we’ve got contracted over 34 GW of renewable vitality throughout 24 nations, marking progress towards accelerating renewable vitality markets and supporting the worldwide vitality transition. We proceed to advocate for the growth of fresh vitality options around the globe.
In Mexico, Microsoft can also be targeted on growing entry to scrub water and sanitation options through our water replenishment initiatives and work to revive ecosystems. In help of our goal to be carbon unfavourable by 2030, just lately Microsoft signed a 6-year take care of The Subsequent 150 to take away as much as 95,000 tons of CO2 from a biochar mission in Guanajuato, Mexico. Moreover, in April, Microsoft signed a 1-year take care of Toroto SAPI de CV to take away 234,000 tons of CO2 through a forest ecosystem restoration mission in the state of Campeche, Mexico. These initiatives provide advantages past carbon removing by supporting native farmers and fostering biodiversity, as Microsoft works to maintain group wants and affect integral to our programs.
By fostering digitalization and empowering people and companies, Microsoft goals to harness technology as a catalyst for transformation, to navigate the brand new economic system, marked by digital companies, AI, and information capital. Through these initiatives and investments, Microsoft exhibits its dedication to propelling Mexico to the forefront of this paradigm shift, leveraging infrastructure initiatives, technological developments, companies, and most significantly, the event of human abilities, to try for sustained growth. To attain this, the corporate embraces accountable innovation, the place ethics and sustainability are targeted to generate a constructive affect on the lives of Mexico’s residents, making certain that the advantages of technology are shared by all, trying ahead to constructing a future that’s inclusive, dynamic, and affluent.
“At the moment’s announcement demonstrates Microsoft’s belief and dedication to Mexico supporting inclusive financial growth in the nation. This investment has already been shared with the incoming Secretary of Economic system, Marcelo Ebrard, to make sure his help and obtain the best affect in our nation. With this, we’re empowering people, firms, and society to boost innovation and democratize using AI through abilities growth, data sharing, and entry to cutting-edge technology and digital infrastructure, whereas additionally assembly our sustainability objectives,” says Rafael Sánchez Loza, Basic Supervisor of Microsoft Mexico.