AWS, Amazon’s cloud arm, has its eye on Brazilian startups. In particular, those native to artificial intelligence. This was what motivated the announcement, this Thursday (7), of the signing of a contract worth US$32 million (around R$160 million) to expand the technological infrastructure of legaltech Forlex.
The agreement is the result of a previous relationship between Amazon and the Brazilian company specializing in artificial intelligence for the legal sector. In 2025, Forlex was one of three selected by Amazon in the AWS Generative AI Accelerator (GAIA) program, a global initiative to promote innovative companies focused on AI.
As a prize, selected startups earn credits for using AWS cloud processing. In this way, Amazon guarantees a relationship with companies with potential growth even in their early stages.
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“Our goal is to get involved with startups as early as possible and help them from the beginning so that, when they are ready to scale and grow, we can support them with the best technical practices and market entry strategies”, says the global vice president of startups and venture capital at AWS, Jason Bennett, on a visit to Brazil.
In the case of Forlex, the contract guarantees legaltech access to the computing capacity of hundreds of Nvidia B200 GPUs for three years. For artificial intelligence companies, this is the type of computing power needed to train and scale models sold by customers.
According to Amazon, the deal launches Forlex to the level of one of the Brazilian technology companies with the largest private commitment of computing capacity dedicated to generative AI. The company would also be the first startups in Latin America to operate continuously, at scale, with the Nvidia Blackwell architecture — the semiconductor giant’s most modern line of processors.
Forlex expects to operate more than 1,500 GPUs by the end of the year, with demand rising as the company advances in an international expansion that began in the United States.
“The US will be our base for international expansion as we look to Europe and the rest of the world,” says Forlex co-CEO and CTO, Daniel Bichuetti. The executive is in charge of structuring the operation in Silicon Valley, where the company intends to be closer to capital and American companies.
For now, there is still no contract closed in the United States, but Bichuetti guarantees that the company is close to concluding a deal with a large law firm in the country. “We will begin a slow expansion to get in touch with companies and run some proofs of concept”, says the CEO.
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Today, one of the company’s main clients in Brazil is the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), for which the LIVIA platform is available among more than 1.5 million lawyers in Brazil. Natura and Qatar Airways are also on legaltech’s client list, which focuses on the areas of legalgovernance and back office.
The platform made for the OAB was specifically trained for the Brazilian legal context and is integrated into the databases of 81 courts with an accuracy of 91% to 93%. According to the company, this positions its tool as one of the most accurate in the world, with a hallucination rate of just 7%.
So far, Forlex has raised R$5.95 million in investment rounds, with R$3.6 million from an initial round led by Vinci Ventures. CEO Daniel Bichuetti says he is in initial talks for a new round
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Highlights of Brazil
This week Enter, a Brazilian artificial intelligence startup focused on business litigation, became a unicorn, a title given to those that exceed a market value of US$1 billion. She breaking the billionaire line.
Although the wave is positive for legaltechs, the financial, health and agribusiness sectors draw AWS’s attention due to the use of artificial intelligence in Brazil: “These would be three sectors in particular in which we see our founders investing and trying to figure out how to improve their experiences and those of their own customers”, says AWS startups director for Latin America, Alvaro Echeverria.
The assessment is that Brazil has become the innovation center on the frontier of AI startups in Latin America. Today, the AWS Global Startup sector has taken a special look at companies focusing on AI agents and physical AI.
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“We are seeing a lot of interesting use cases where robotics and physical AI can support us in helping in the real world. There are countless examples that we have seen both in the US and in other countries around the world”, says Bennett. “And I expect that over time, agents will play a role for most of the workloads that you see in organizations.”
