Map of AI in Brazil
Who does AI in the country — labs, companies, public programs, datacenters, laws — every entry sourced and dated, on a map that updates with Cinco.
- Under evaluation · no date
- Continuous · weekly update, annual read
- Free, open data.
- 2027
The Archive answers 'what changed'; the Map answers 'who, where and with what money' — and the two feed each other.
- Whoever looks for a partner, supplier or lab and today relies on word of mouth.
- Journalists and researchers who need a sourced list, not an opinionated one.
- Government and funds that want to see the territory, not the discourse.
- The map
- A map of Brazil with every entity georeferenced — the site's same hexagonal screen, now with data.
- The entries
- One per entity: what it does, since when, public money received (sourced), key people, last mention in Cinco.
- The timeline
- Regulation, calls, tenders and milestones, each linked to the document.
- The data
- Open CSV and GeoJSON, permissive license, updated alongside the editions.
- 1Seed
Every entity cited in a Cinco entry enters the Map with that entry's source.
- 2Verify
Nothing enters without a document: company registry, call, paper, official page. Word of mouth becomes 'to verify', kept apart.
- 3Open
Entities can request a correction to their own entry. The correction carries a date, and the history stays.
- 4Update
Every Tuesday, alongside Cinco. Once a year, a read of the whole territory.
- 2027Go/no-go decision, with the first 200 entities already cited in Cinco
Entry types
Each type has its own required fields — and its own minimum acceptable source.
- Lab
- University or company; research line; papers in the Archive; source: official page + paper.
- Company
- What it sells; own model or not; source: registry + site + one documented mention.
- Public program
- Agency, amount, deadline, call; source: official gazette or agency portal.
- Infrastructure
- Datacenter, supercomputer, network; declared capacity; source: tender or official announcement.
- Norm
- Law, bill, resolution, sandbox; stage; source: official text.
Every week Cinco cites labs, companies, calls, datacenters and laws. Today those citations stay locked in the entries. The Map of AI in Brazil is the idea of releasing them into one place: who does what, where, since when, with what money — every row with the source that brought it.
It is a concept because maintaining a living database is a years-long commitment, and the house still has one person. The go/no-go decision comes in 2027, when Cinco has cited some two hundred entities — enough to know whether the map holds up on its own.
- Do companies pay to be listed?
- No. They get in by document. They can sponsor the annual read of the territory, name on the cover and no influence on entries.
- What if an entry is wrong?
- The entity requests a correction with a document; the correction goes out dated and the history stays visible.
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