Brazil's government has announced investments of approximately 2.3 billion reais ($444m) to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure, deliberately dividing the work between American and Chinese technology partners. Some 1.3 billion reais will fund a supercomputing facility in Rio de Janeiro built in partnership with China's Huawei and iFlytek, focused on developing large language models, while a separate 1 billion reais tender — expected to be won by US chipmaker Nvidia — will finance a machine in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte that Brazil aims to rank among the world's ten most powerful AI processors. President Lula's administration framed the split as a sovereignty strategy, stating it does not wish to depend on any single company, technology, or country — a reflection of Brazil's wider diplomatic balancing act between its largest trading partner, China, and the United States, its biggest source of foreign direct investment.