Manifesto
Manifesto
Manifesto
Manifesto
Manifesto
The Guairá Manifesto
Last updated
October 16, 2025
The Guairá.ai Manifesto
Latin America has watched every technological revolution pass before it. Industrial, digital, internet, mobile. All born elsewhere, monetized elsewhere, owned elsewhere. Each missed wave reinforced the same result: dependence disguised as progress. We adopted the tools but not the infrastructure. We became consumers of innovation instead of its producers.
Artificial intelligence is the next great cycle. It is the foundation of every future industry. Whoever controls compute, data, and models wins in the new economic order. The value chain is vertical: fundamental research and compute infrastructure at the base, applications at the surface. Today, Latin America lives almost entirely at that surface, developing use cases on others’ platforms, renting access to the energy and infrastructure of other regions.
This must end. History does not forgive regions that hesitate during technological shifts.
Guairá starts from first principles and works backward from a single, non-negotiable destination: Latin America must have a seat at the global AI research table. We are building a sovereign laboratory, a Latin American institution capable of producing foundational models, original research, and a generation of builders who shape technology instead of merely consuming it.
To reach that future, Guairá begins at the base of the value chain: energy and compute. The global race to build data centers is accelerating, and Paraguay stands out as the logical starting point. The country generates more renewable energy than it consumes, exporting the surplus—most of it from Itaipú, one of the largest hydroelectric plants on the planet—at prices among the lowest in the world. This abundance of clean power is Latin America’s strategic advantage, yet it remains underused for technological advancement. Guairá will transform this energy into computing infrastructure, creating the continent’s first real foothold in the intelligence economy. Every megawatt kept within Paraguay fuels data, research, and technical knowledge that accumulate locally instead of flowing abroad.
The name Guairá carries both memory and purpose. It comes from the Guairá Falls, once one of the most powerful waterfalls on Earth, submerged and destroyed with the construction of the Itaipú Dam. What was lost in nature gave rise to immense energy. Guairá claims that legacy, transforming the same force that erased a natural wonder into the foundation of a new one - an intelligence economy rooted in Latin American power.
Guairá treats compute as a strategic resource, owned, built, and managed locally. We bring together energy producers, researchers, and governments to raise the backbone of a homegrown AI ecosystem, and upon it we will train a generation not only to use AI but to design it: scientists, model creators, and system engineers who understand both the physics and the philosophy of intelligence.
This is not about catching up. It is about entering the game where it truly matters: at the foundations of knowledge and computation.
Guairá is the bridge between Latin America’s energy potential and its technological sovereignty.
The future of artificial intelligence will be built where computing power exists.
And it will exist here.
Finn Puklowski - Founder
The Guairá.ai Manifesto
Latin America has watched every technological revolution pass before it. Industrial, digital, internet, mobile. All born elsewhere, monetized elsewhere, owned elsewhere. Each missed wave reinforced the same result: dependence disguised as progress. We adopted the tools but not the infrastructure. We became consumers of innovation instead of its producers.
Artificial intelligence is the next great cycle. It is the foundation of every future industry. Whoever controls compute, data, and models wins in the new economic order. The value chain is vertical: fundamental research and compute infrastructure at the base, applications at the surface. Today, Latin America lives almost entirely at that surface, developing use cases on others’ platforms, renting access to the energy and infrastructure of other regions.
This must end. History does not forgive regions that hesitate during technological shifts.
Guairá starts from first principles and works backward from a single, non-negotiable destination: Latin America must have a seat at the global AI research table. We are building a sovereign laboratory, a Latin American institution capable of producing foundational models, original research, and a generation of builders who shape technology instead of merely consuming it.
To reach that future, Guairá begins at the base of the value chain: energy and compute. The global race to build data centers is accelerating, and Paraguay stands out as the logical starting point. The country generates more renewable energy than it consumes, exporting the surplus—most of it from Itaipú, one of the largest hydroelectric plants on the planet—at prices among the lowest in the world. This abundance of clean power is Latin America’s strategic advantage, yet it remains underused for technological advancement. Guairá will transform this energy into computing infrastructure, creating the continent’s first real foothold in the intelligence economy. Every megawatt kept within Paraguay fuels data, research, and technical knowledge that accumulate locally instead of flowing abroad.
The name Guairá carries both memory and purpose. It comes from the Guairá Falls, once one of the most powerful waterfalls on Earth, submerged and destroyed with the construction of the Itaipú Dam. What was lost in nature gave rise to immense energy. Guairá claims that legacy, transforming the same force that erased a natural wonder into the foundation of a new one - an intelligence economy rooted in Latin American power.
Guairá treats compute as a strategic resource, owned, built, and managed locally. We bring together energy producers, researchers, and governments to raise the backbone of a homegrown AI ecosystem, and upon it we will train a generation not only to use AI but to design it: scientists, model creators, and system engineers who understand both the physics and the philosophy of intelligence.
This is not about catching up. It is about entering the game where it truly matters: at the foundations of knowledge and computation.
Guairá is the bridge between Latin America’s energy potential and its technological sovereignty.
The future of artificial intelligence will be built where computing power exists.
And it will exist here.
Finn Puklowski - Founder