Brazil sovereign AI programme

Vendor: NVIDIA

Count: 248

Status: Operational

Scope: Physical hardware

LNCC Santos Dumont (government)

Santos Dumont’s 248-H100 partition after the July 2025 upgrade. Primary source, 9 Jul 2025

Vendor: NVIDIA

Count: 144

Status: Operational

Scope: Physical hardware

LNCC Santos Dumont (government)

Santos Dumont’s 144 Grace Hopper superchips after the July 2025 upgrade. Primary source, 9 Jul 2025

Vendor: AMD

Count: 36

Status: Operational

Scope: Physical hardware

LNCC Santos Dumont (government)

Santos Dumont’s 36 MI300A APUs after the July 2025 upgrade. Primary source, 9 Jul 2025

The whole programme. The line is the plan itself, so its scope matches the record. The amount is an announced envelope rather than an appropriation: the plan says its R$ 23 bilhões come from 'diversas fontes como crédito, recursos públicos e contrapartida de investimento privado'. MCTI's August 2025 breakdown puts R$ 12,72 bilhões in credit (FNDCT/Finep, BNDES and others), R$ 5,57 bilhões in non-reimbursable FNDCT money and R$ 2,90 bilhões in other budget (LOA) money, the last 'pendente de confirmação' each year (figures below). No act appropriates the total: TCU Acórdão 2616/2026-Plenário, paragraph 35, records MCTI's Nota Técnica 1.830/2025 saying the plan was 'um conjunto de propostas ainda pendentes de formalização jurídica definitiva', which limited its linkage to funding sources and budget programming. The plan states the period as 2024 to 2028; the budget's period runs from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2028. The plan's imprint is 'Brasília, DF: MCTI; CGEE, 2025' (ISBN 978-65-5775-097-1); an MCTI item republished by the LNCC AI Institute on 16 June 2025 reports the final version as recently published, so the plan and its budget are dated to that day. The file read is CGEE's reissue (PDF dated 17 July 2026), which prints the same Tabela 2.

Announced by the government: the PBIA’s 23 billion BRL of planned investment for 2024-2028, January 2024 to December 2028. Printed as “R$ 23,03 bilhões”. About $4.2B at the reference rate of 16 Jun 2025. A Tabela 2 detalha os R$ 23,03 bilhões de investimentos previstos no período 2024 a 2028 pelo PBIA para as ações de impacto (1,9% do total de investimentos) e cada um dos cinco eixos estruturantes (Table 2 details the R$ 23.03 billion of investment planned over 2024 to 2028 by the PBIA for the impact actions (1.9% of total investment) and each of the five structuring axes) Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI) and Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos (CGEE), IA para o Bem de Todos: Plano Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial (PBIA) 2024-2028, versão final, section 3.2 'Montante de Investimentos', Tabela 2 'Investimentos do PBIA' (PDF page 32), 16 Jun 2025

Announced: 12.7 billion BRL, 27 Aug 2025. Printed as “R$ 12,72 bilhões”. Credit (FNDCT/Finep reimbursable, BNDES and others) within the R$ 23,03 bilhões, per MCTI's slide 'Investimentos PBIA 2024-2028'. Loans to companies, not budget spending. Investimentos PBIA 2024-2028 Total: R$ 23,03 bilhões FNDCT não- reembolsável R$ 5,57 bilhões Crédito (FNDCT/FINEP + BNDES + outros) R$ 12,72 bilhões LOA (sem FNDCT não- reembolsável)* R$ 2,90 bilhões (PBIA investment 2024-2028 Total: R$ 23.03 billion; non-reimbursable FNDCT R$ 5.57 billion; credit (FNDCT/FINEP + BNDES + others) R$ 12.72 billion; LOA (excluding non-reimbursable FNDCT)* R$ 2.90 billion) Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (filed by Câmara dos Deputados, CCTCI), MCTI presentation 'Plano IA para o Bem de Todos' to the Chamber of Deputies' Committee on Communication, Science, Technology and Innovation (CCTCI), technical meeting of 27 August 2025, slide 'Investimentos PBIA 2024-2028' (sources of investment)

Budget estimate: 5.57 billion BRL, 27 Aug 2025. Printed as “R$ 5,57 bilhões”. Non-reimbursable FNDCT money within the plan's total, per the same MCTI slide. FNDCT não- reembolsável R$ 5,57 bilhões (non-reimbursable FNDCT R$ 5.57 billion) Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (filed by Câmara dos Deputados, CCTCI), MCTI presentation 'Plano IA para o Bem de Todos' to the Chamber of Deputies' CCTCI, 27 August 2025, slide 'Investimentos PBIA 2024-2028' (sources of investment)

Budget estimate: 2.9 billion BRL, 27 Aug 2025. Printed as “R$ 2,90 bilhões”. Other federal budget (LOA) money excluding non-reimbursable FNDCT, footnoted on the slide as a projected global value pending confirmation in each year's budget and financial programming. LOA (sem FNDCT não- reembolsável)* R$ 2,90 bilhões *Valor global projetado, pendente de confirmação na programação orçamentária e financeira de cada ano. (LOA (excluding non-reimbursable FNDCT)* R$ 2.90 billion. *Projected global value, pending confirmation in each year's budget and financial programming.) Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (filed by Câmara dos Deputados, CCTCI), MCTI presentation 'Plano IA para o Bem de Todos' to the Chamber of Deputies' CCTCI, 27 August 2025, slide 'Investimentos PBIA 2024-2028' and its footnote

Announced: 23.2 billion BRL, 27 Aug 2025. Printed as “R$ 23,23 bilhões”. A second government statement of the same quantity that disagrees with the plan: the same MCTI presentation's slide 'Investimentos previstos' labels its column 2025-29 and gives axis 3 R$ 1,96 bilhão (the plan's Tabela 2: R$ 1,76 bilhão), totalling R$ 23,23 bilhões against the R$ 23,03 bilhões on its sources slide and in the plan. Eixo 3 - IA para Melhoria dos Serviços Públicos R$ 1,96 bilhão ... Total R$ 23,23 bilhões (Axis 3 - AI to improve public services R$ 1.96 billion ... Total R$ 23.23 billion) Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (filed by Câmara dos Deputados, CCTCI), MCTI presentation 'Plano IA para o Bem de Todos' to the Chamber of Deputies' CCTCI, 27 August 2025, slide 'Investimentos previstos' (column 'Descrição 2025-29')

Announced: 22.6 billion BRL, 7 Jul 2026. Printed as “22566590000”. Sum of 'Recursos previstos' (planned resources) over the 54 structuring actions in the official PBIA monitoring panel (MCTI/CGEE Power BI; dataset last refreshed 7 July 2026), as the panel's general-page gauge computes it. Axis totals: 1 R$ 5,807,900,000; 2 R$ 1,138,440,000; 3 R$ 1,757,000,000; 4 R$ 13,760,000,000; 5 R$ 103,250,000. The panel's immediate-impact actions add R$ 504,617,360.10 planned. "Name":"Sum(Eixos.Recursos previstos)" ... "C":[7828504241.65,25,19,22566590000,7377704241.65,450800000,54] (fourth value is the sum of Recursos previstos) MCTI and CGEE, Painel de resultados do PBIA (Power BI report 'DashBoard PBIA'), page 'Geral Eixos', gauge Sum(Eixos.Recursos previstos); dataset table Eixos, 7 Jul 2026

Spent: 7.83 billion BRL, 31 Dec 2025. Printed as “7828504241.65”. The panel's measure 'Total Recursos Utilizados' (resources used), self-reported by the responsible institutions. It is NOT recorded as paid: the panel does not define 'utilizados', it is not budget execution, and it mixes cut-offs and money types. Axes 2-5 are reported to July 2025 (R$ 7,377,704,241.65) and axis 1 to December 2025 (R$ 450,800,000). Axis 4 alone is R$ 6,772,210,000, mostly action 48 (R$ 5,860,000,000, panel sources 'BNDES e FINEP'; the plan lists that action's resources as 'FNDCT-reembolsável e BNDES', i.e. credit). Action 21 shows R$ 406,000,000 used against R$ 250,000,000 planned, with source 'Projetos Prioritários da Lei de TICs (PPI)'. "Name":"Eixos.Total Recursos Utilizados" ... "C":[7828504241.65,25,19,22566590000,7377704241.65,450800000,54] (first value is Total Recursos Utilizados) MCTI and CGEE, Painel de resultados do PBIA (Power BI report 'DashBoard PBIA'), page 'Geral Eixos', gauge measure Eixos.Total Recursos Utilizados; per-action columns 'Recursos utilizados até julho de 2025' and 'Recursos utilizados até dezembro de 2025' (pbi_eixos_actions.csv), 7 Jul 2026

Spent: 249 million BRL, 31 Dec 2025. Printed as “248800000”. Action 01 'Supercomputador de IA' (planned R$ 1,800,000,000; sources 'FNDCT não reembolsável, FAPESP e Petrobras'): resources used to December 2025 per the panel, self-reported and undefined as above. FAPESP (São Paulo state) and Petrobras money is not federal budget spending. Eixo 1: Infraestrutura e Desenvolvimento de IA,1.1. Programa Nacional de Infraestrutura para IA,Ação 01: Supercomputador de IA,Com entregas,1800000000,,248800000,"FNDCT não reembolsável, FAPESP e Petrobras","MCTI, Petrobras, FAPESP, LNCC e FINEP",,2027 MCTI and CGEE, Painel de resultados do PBIA (Power BI report 'DashBoard PBIA'), page 'Eixo 1', action 'Ação 01: Supercomputador de IA', column 'Recursos utilizados até dezembro de 2025', 7 Jul 2026

Budget estimate: 5 billion BRL, 21 May 2025. Printed as “5.000”. FNDCT investment programme 11, 'IA Brasil', created in 2025 to carry PBIA actions: its 2025-2029 budget in the FNDCT's non-reimbursable annual investment plan 2025, whose deliberations ask the FNDCT board to approve the programmes' 2025-2029 budget (table in R$ millions). The figure is dated to the PDF's creation; the board's approval date is not printed (unverified). The PAI 2025 allocates R$ 500,000,000 to programme 11 for 2025 and the PAI 2026 R$ 1,246,922,653 for 2026 (commitments and allocations); neither PAI reports spending by programme. Orçamento 2025-2029 Programa de Investimento (R$ milhões) ... 11 - IA Brasil 5.000 ... TOTAL 48.000 (Budget 2025-2029 by investment programme (R$ millions) ... 11 - AI Brazil 5,000 ... TOTAL 48,000) Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (MCTI/Finep), Plano Anual de Investimento 2025: Recursos Não Reembolsáveis (FNDCT), item 11, table 'Orçamento 2025-2029 (R$ milhões)', row '11 - IA Brasil' (PDF page 19); 2025 allocation in the consolidated table 'TOTAL DO PROGRAMA', column 11 IA Brasil, 21 May 2025

Final PBIA plan (MCTI/CGEE): IA para o Bem de Todos: Plano Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial 2024-2028, final version (imprint 2025; CGEE reissue PDF of 17 July 2026), 108 pages, read in full text. Tabela 2: R$ 23,03 bilhões planned for 2024-2028 by axis, plus per-action resources and sources. No execution figures. Final PBIA plan (MCTI/CGEE), 2 Nov 2026

Official PBIA monitoring panel (pbia.cgee.org.br, Power BI) and its content API: Power BI report 'DashBoard PBIA' (dataset refreshed 7 July 2026): tables Eixos, Eixo 1-5, Impacto and Novas, all rows; site content (structured contents and search API) listing official documents and the GT-PBIA minutes. Planned resources by action (R$ 22,566,590,000 for 54 structuring actions; R$ 504,617,360.10 for immediate-impact actions) and self-reported 'recursos utilizados' (R$ 7,828,504,241.65 structuring; R$ 160,331,153.17 immediate) to July or December 2025, with no definition of 'utilizados' (receipts br/dl-07). Official PBIA monitoring panel (pbia.cgee.org.br, Power BI) and its content API, 2 Nov 2026

GT-PBIA meeting minutes 1-6 (pbia-cms.cgee.org.br): Atas of the PBIA working group meetings of 31 July 2025, 2 September 2025, 7 October 2025, 25 November 2025, 20 May 2026 and 13 August 2026. No execution amounts. Minute 5 records that CGEE presented the monitoring report for January-December 2025 and asks institutions to fill gaps; that report and the first annual report (January 2026, per the site's activity list) are not published on the site (receipts br/dl-01 to br/dl-06). GT-PBIA meeting minutes 1-6 (pbia-cms.cgee.org.br), 2 Nov 2026

MCTI presentation to the Chamber of Deputies' CCTCI (27 August 2025): 33-slide MCTI presentation on the PBIA. Sources of the R$ 23,03 bilhões (credit 12,72; FNDCT non-reimbursable 5,57; LOA 2,90; private 1,06; state companies 0,43; other 0,36) and a conflicting R$ 23,23 bilhões '2025-29' slide. Delivery items include Finep grants to public-sector AI projects ('R$ 40,5 MM desembolsados / R$ 34,2 a desembolsar') and 'R$ 5,7 bi desembolsados' in Finep/FNDCT credit; neither is budget execution of a PBIA line (receipt br/dl-13). MCTI presentation to the Chamber of Deputies' CCTCI (27 August 2025), 2 Nov 2026

FNDCT annual investment plans, non-reimbursable (gov.br/mcti): Plano Anual de Investimento Não Reembolsável 2025 and 2026 (retificado). Programme 11 'IA Brasil' created in 2025 for PBIA actions: R$ 5.000 milhões for 2025-2029, R$ 500,000,000 allocated for 2025, R$ 1,246,922,653 for 2026. Budget execution in the PAIs is by budget action (2021-2025), not by programme (receipts br/dl-09, br/dl-10). FNDCT annual investment plans, non-reimbursable (gov.br/mcti), 2 Nov 2026

TCU jurisprudence search (pesquisa.apps.tcu.gov.br): All decisions containing the exact phrase 'Plano Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial' (3 found: Acórdão 2943/2025, Acórdão de Relação 1159/2026, Acórdão 2616/2026), the last read in full. No audit of PBIA spending. Acórdão 2616/2026-Plenário (23 September 2026), paragraph 35, records MCTI's own statement that the plan is a set of proposals pending legal formalization, which limited the linkage of its actions to funding sources and budget programming (receipt br/dl-11). TCU jurisprudence search (pesquisa.apps.tcu.gov.br), 2 Nov 2026

National Council for Science and Technology (CCT) minutes: Ata da Reunião Ordinária do CCT de 23 de julho de 2024. Presentation and discussion of the plan's proposal; no approved amount and no spending (receipt br/dl-12). National Council for Science and Technology (CCT) minutes, 2 Nov 2026

MCTI PBIA page and news: MCTI PBIA page; MCTI news of 26 November 2025 on the monitoring panel (54 structuring actions, 25 with deliveries and 15 started by November 2025). The R$ 23 bilhões envelope and the link to the panel; no spending figure. MCTI PBIA page and news, 2 Nov 2026

Federal budget execution systems (Portal da Transparência API, SIOP): Not queried on 2 November 2026: the Portal's API needs a registered key and SIOP needs a login, neither of which this search used. Not searched. TCU's Acórdão 2616/2026 states that the plan's actions could not be linked to budget programming, so no PBIA budget marker is known to exist in either system. Federal budget execution systems (Portal da Transparência API, SIOP), 2 Nov 2026

CGEE's monitoring report for January-December 2025 (presented to the working group on 20 May 2026) and the first annual report (January 2026) are not published. They may define 'recursos utilizados' and could split budget spending from credit; this would decide whether any panel figure can stand as paid.

Federal budget execution of PBIA actions cannot be isolated: TCU found no linkage to budget programming, and FNDCT reports execution by budget action rather than by its programme 11 'IA Brasil'. A Portal da Transparência or SIOP query would need an account; Finep's FNDCT reports by programme were not found.

MCTI's own figures disagree on the plan's total and period (R$ 23,03 bilhões for 2024-2028 in the plan and on one slide; R$ 23,23 bilhões '2025-29' on another, with axis 3 at R$ 1,96 bilhão against 1,76).

The plan's final publication date is unverified beyond the imprint year 2025 and the 16 June 2025 MCTI/LNCC note; the FNDCT board's approval date for the 2025-2029 programme budgets is not printed in the PAI 2025.

Accelerators: 248

Model: NVIDIA Hopper H100 (HGX)

Stage: Commissioned

Physical hardware. Santos Dumont’s H100 partition; GH200 and MI300A devices belong to separate partitions. Primary source, 9 Jul 2025

Operates Santos Dumont at Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. The July 2025 upgrade includes 248 H100 GPUs, 144 Grace Hopper superchips and 36 MI300A APUs. LNCC signed a US$19.4M upgrade contract with Eviden in April 2024.

Primary source, 11 Apr 2024

Stage: Awarded

Integrated the Santos Dumont upgrade using BullSequana XH3000 systems. The contract was announced in April 2024; the July 2025 completion announcement describes H100, Grace Hopper and MI300A accelerator partitions.

Primary source, 11 Apr 2024

Stage: Commissioned

Provided financial support for the Santos Dumont upgrade at LNCC. Petrobras also operates computing systems for its own research; its corporate hardware and the LNCC system have separate operators.

Programme-level disclosure

Research database, 29 Aug 2024

Stage: Empanelled

Provides financing for PBIA actions. The plan assigns national data-centre development to BNDES and Finep calls, and combines repayable financing with non-repayable research and business support.

Programme-level disclosure

Primary source, 30 Jul 2024

Stage: Empanelled

Provides financing for PBIA actions, including national data centres and AI startups. The final plan names BNDES and Finep calls under the data-centre development action.

Programme-level disclosure

Primary source, 30 Jul 2024

Stage: Empanelled

Supports industrial research and AI development. PBIA Action 42 proposes an AI competence network, expanded participation by Embrapii units and research partnerships with companies.

Programme-level disclosure

Primary source, 30 Jul 2024

Hopper The full GH100 GPU that powers the H100 GPU is fabricated using the TSMC 4N process customized for NVIDIA NVIDIA, “NVIDIA Hopper Architecture In-Depth”, 2026-09-25

MI300X Lithography TSMC 5nm | 6nm FinFET AMD, “AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators”, 2026-09-25

MI300A Lithography TSMC 5nm | 6nm FinFET AMD, “AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerators”, 2026-09-25