open source AI
AI & Automation
Latam-GPT: How Chile Built Latin America’s First Sovereign AI Model
ALGERIATECH Editorial
March 2, 2026
Chile's CENIA launched Latam-GPT, a Llama 3.1-based open model trained on 300B+ tokens of Latin American data for $550K. What it means for the Global South.
Startups
Open Source AI Business Models: How Mistral, Together AI, and Others Make Money
ALGERIATECH Editorial
February 20, 2026
The Open Source Paradox You spend two years and $30 million training a frontier language model. You release it on Hugging Face.
Policy & Regulation
Open Source AI: The Policy Battle That Will Define the Next Decade of Technology
ALGERIATECH Editorial
December 14, 2025
When Meta released Llama 3 in April 2024 with open weights — making the model's parameters freely downloadable by anyone — it ignited one of the most significant policy debates in AI history. When DeepSeek followed with R1 in January 2025, demonstrating that Chinese
