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Mexico City Launches Digital Week With Mass AI Class Featuring OpenAI and Nvidia

Officials used the showcase to pitch Azcapotzalco as a technology hub and to advance a schools program equipping 3,000 campuses with digital tools.

Overview

  • Held on October 19 in Parque Tezozómoc, the event opened Semana Digital, a week of more than 400 technology and training activities.
  • Representatives from OpenAI, Nvidia and Platzi took part, with Platzi co-founder Freddy Vega leading the opening lesson and talks by Nvidia’s Jomar Silva and OpenAI’s Cassandra Duchan Solis.
  • City leaders described the gathering as the largest AI class in the country, while press reports offered varying attendance counts ranging from more than 2,000 to several thousand.
  • The government reiterated its Mixtli Digital plan to install digital classrooms with interactive boards, VR, 3D printers and AI tools in 3,000 basic-education schools.
  • Workers from the PILARES community education network protested at the site over labor agreements and reinstatements, and no public resolution was announced.