The (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) approved R$4.7 billion in credit and equity since the beginning of the current Lula government.
Of this total, R$3 billion went to AI-intensive projects and the remainder to initiatives that contained AI in part.
Among AI-intensive projects, funding was R$1 billion for integrators and developers, R$552 million for hardware and R$474 million for infrastructure. On the equity side, the bank operated via the subsidiary BNDESPAR.
The Lula government has presented the issue as a priority.
“In addition to being a vector of innovation, this is a technology that will guarantee us productivity gains for different economic sectors and strengthen our technological sovereignty, allowing this development to be at the service of everyone, under global governance”, says the bank’s president, Aloizio Mercadante.
According to him, BNDES “has worked to ensure that Brazil has a prominent position in this transformation, which involves infrastructure, professional qualification, development of solutions for business and the improvement of public services”.
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