By Brazil Stock Guide – Claro, the Brazilian telecommunications unit of América Móvil SAB (AMX), launched a GPU-as-a-Service product aimed at companies seeking to build and run artificial intelligence models without buying dedicated computing infrastructure.
The service, announced Tuesday (9) during the Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro, will allow corporate clients to contract only the amount of graphics-processing capacity they need. GPUs, or graphics processing units, are chips designed to handle many calculations simultaneously and are widely used in AI workloads.
Roberta Godoi, chief executive officer of Claro Empresas PME, said the launch extends a cloud strategy the company began presenting last year, when Claro announced a R$1 billion investment in its Claro Cloud platform.
“What we are telling today is the continuation of a story that we had already been telling since last year, launching GPU as a Service,” Godoi said at a press briefing.
The offering is backed by a partnership with Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), which Godoi described as globally unprecedented. She said the arrangement will allow Claro to serve customers ranging from small businesses to large corporations.
“The partnership will allow us to provide customers — from small to large companies — with GPU as a Service, and with that we democratize and accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence by any of our customers,” she said.
Godoi said many companies are already experimenting with AI, but face difficulties when trying to scale those applications. Claro is seeking to address that bottleneck by offering computing capacity that can expand according to each company’s stage of adoption.
“We work on this pain point of scale, respecting the moment of the companies and allowing them to enter this world safely, in their own time and in their own way,” Godoi said.
The launch broadens Claro’s push into corporate cloud services at a time when demand for AI infrastructure is increasing across Brazil’s business market.
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