“The entire chain for retaining talent here is broken.”Milei has repeatedly pitched Argentina as a future global hub for AI. “Don’t be surprised if Argentina becomes the next [AI] global hub,” Milei said in an address in December. Meanwhile, tech giants like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent, and Huawei are pouring billions into AI talent and compute power, leaving Latin American countries scrambling for scarce computing resources. “An AI hub is fine, but the real economic gain will come from companies [embracing AI],” said Katz. Yes,” Leandro Mora Alfonsín, executive director at Argencon, a trade association for knowledge‑economy companies in the country, told Rest of World.