{"name":"Applied AI in Venezuela — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Venezuela, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/venezuela","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Venezuela","slug":"venezuela","iso2":"VE","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":21,"deployments":12,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":5,"regulation":4,"industries":8,"countries":1,"linked":21},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Infocentro and Cantv","text":"Medical students, physicians and nursing staff at Isla de Coche's Centro de Diagnóstico Integral Haydée Suárez gained an AI training for healthcare workers on 22 September 2026, organised by Fundación Infocentro alongside Cantv. Instructors walked through AI's origins, natural language processing and prompt-writing tactics, then guided attendees through practical drills on Gemini. Nueva Esparta's session aimed to sharpen digital fluency for both treatment-related and office-based responsibilities, reflecting wider AI skills for medical staff efforts in Venezuela.","date":"2026-09-22","source":"https://www.infocentro.gob.ve/index.php/infocentro-y-cantv-capacitan-en-ia-al-personal-de-salud-del-cdi-haydee-suarez/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Venezuela","org":"Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026)","text":"AI adoption in Venezuela reached 11.3% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 1.0 points above 10.3% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount. Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela share identical figures.","date":"2026-09-21","source":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2026-Q2.pdf"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Fundacite Anzoátegui and Fundabit","text":"Guanta municipal staff received local government AI training from Fundacite Anzoátegui and Fundabit, learning core concepts, tools and prompt writing to lift service quality. A 10 September follow-up adds image generation, media production and web design, extending this municipal AI capacity-building drive, 'Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada a la Gestión Pública'.","date":"2026-09-04","source":"https://mincyt.gob.ve/fundacite-anzoategui-y-fundabit-dictaron-taller-de-inteligencia-artificial-en-guanta/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","role":"Disaster response official","org":"Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology (Mincyt)","text":"AI damage assessment earthquake response now runs at Mincyt, Venezuela's Ministry of Science and Technology, which built the system after the double earthquake of June 24. Drone and satellite feeds train the model to spot, classify and flag structural harm, plotting results onto colour-coded maps graded from critical red down to minor yellow. Output reaches the armed forces, civil protection teams and the presidential infrastructure commission, giving relief coordination a shared, geo-tagged picture of where damage is worst — a form of AI-based infrastructure damage categorisation applied directly to disaster response.","date":"2026-07-25","source":"https://mincyt.gob.ve/ia-permite-identificar-afectaciones-por-sismos-del-24-de-junio-mediante-analisis-satelital-y-drones/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela","text":"Decreed 29 May 2026 by Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's new Vice-Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Productive Efficiency sits under the Ministry of Science and Technology, extending AI in government toward industrial modernisation. A parallel Technology and Data Management Centre applies predictive-maintenance and output-optimisation software to hydrocarbons. Officials frame this as groundwork for broader artificial intelligence in the public sector.","date":"2026-05-29","source":"https://rnv.gob.ve/ejecutivo-nacional-crea-el-viceministerio-de-inteligencia-artificial-y-eficiencia-productiva/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Venezuela","role":"Surgeon","org":"Hospital Clínico Universitario (UCV)","text":"UCV has relaunched AI in robotic surgery in Venezuela, pairing a multi-arm robot with AI tools and a digital platform linking records to booking. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez opened this AI-assisted surgical setup, spanning urology, gynaecology, thoracic and general procedures with Chinese-made equipment, for wider rollout across state hospitals.","date":"2026-05-26","source":"https://noticierove.com/inauguran-servicios-de-cirugia-robotica-y-de-cirugia-plastica-reconstructiva-en-el-huc/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Ministry of Science and Technology (Mincyt)","text":"Venezuela's Ministry of Science and Technology (Mincyt) is offering a free, self-guided online AI course, 'Introducción a la Inteligencia Artificial: Machine Learning y Deep Learning', through Prisma, its new educational platform. Anyone can enrol at prisma.mincyt.gob.ve; lessons span AI history, deep learning, machine learning algorithms and ethics. Minister Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez unveiled this AI training on World Creativity and Innovation Day.","date":"2026-04-21","source":"https://mincyt.gob.ve/mincyt-lanza-plataforma-y-taller-sobre-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","role":"Police officer","org":"Chacao municipality","text":"Venezuela's Chacao municipality, Miranda state, runs AI robot dog patrols with two self-guided machines, Voltio and Turbo. Fitted with high-definition cameras and movement detectors, each streams live footage to the council's situational room, reads car number plates and spots stealing or vandalism of civic assets. Chacao calls this robotic patrol a Latin American municipal first.","date":"2026-03-21","source":"https://www.elnacional.com/2026/03/chacao-implementa-patrullaje-con-perros-roboticos-es-el-primer-municipio-de-latinoamerica-con-esta-tecnologia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","role":"Police officer","org":"Chacao municipality (Alcaldía de Chacao)","text":"Turbo and Voltio, two AI-powered robot dogs public safety patrols units, roam Chacao's squares in eastern Caracas after dark. Cameras and motion sensors relay live video to the command centre, helping staff spot odd movement and verify plates. Gustavo Duque called the AI-powered robotic patrol units support, not a stand-in, for police.","date":"2026-03","source":"https://es.euronews.com/video/2026/03/26/venezuela-despliega-perros-roboticos-para-patrullas-en-caracas"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology (Mincyt)","text":"Nine principles now anchor AI regulation Venezuela, among them humanist AI, equity, safety and environmental responsibility. This new AI ethics framework, unveiled by Venezuela's Ministry of Science and Technology, is called the Code of Ethics for the Development and Responsible Application of Artificial Intelligence, meant to steer tech use on ethical grounds. A related law has cleared its first National Assembly reading.","date":"2026-02-19","source":"https://mincyt.gob.ve/venezuela-presenta-el-codigo-de-etica-para-el-desarrollo-y-aplicacion-responsable-de-la-ia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Venezuela","role":"Doctors","org":"Ministerio del Poder Popular para Ciencia y Tecnología","text":"One unified patient file, nationwide: Venezuela's Historia Clínica Única (HCU) gives every public hospital access to an AI-powered health record system running on domestically engineered artificial intelligence. Its built-in assistant helps clinicians move faster through consultations, powering this unified medical record platform as adoption spreads.","date":"2025-12-12","source":"https://www.cenditel.gob.ve/portal/2025/12/12/np-12122025-6/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Venezuela","role":"Customer service agent","org":"Ridery","text":"Panita, Ridery's AI assistant on WhatsApp, racked up 830,000 monthly messages and 40,000 chat-booked journeys before its 2 December debut. Built with domestic talent, it organises taxi rides, film tickets, coach fares, cargo jobs and everyday queries in colloquial Venezuelan Spanish. Since 26 November 2025, it stands as the nation's pioneering WhatsApp virtual assistant.","date":"2025-12-02","source":"https://lacalle.com.ve/ridery-presenta-panita-el-asistente-virtual-que-inaugura-una-nueva-era-de-servicios-por-whatsapp-en-venezuela/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Venezuela","role":"Customer service agents","org":"Activo Banco Universal","text":"Activo Banco Universal now runs round-the-clock AI customer service chatbots, built on natural language processing, fielding client queries 24/7. Tricky cases route straight to human executives, cutting wait times. Announced at IA Tech Day, the bank's next step adds chatbots grasping conversational context.","date":"2025-11","source":"https://www.bancaynegocios.com/activo-banco-universal-utiliza-ia-para-la-mejorar-experiencia-del-cliente-y-eficiencia-operativa/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Venezuela","role":"Teachers","org":"Gobierno de Venezuela","text":"Schools and high schools across Venezuela will teach AI classes in schools from the 2025-2026 academic year, under a directive from President Nicolás Maduro. The plan links this new AI education in Venezuela to building homegrown, sovereign technology skills, preparing a future workforce of engineers and programmers.","date":"2025-09-15","source":"https://conatel.gob.ve/venezuela-incorpora-ensenanza-en-inteligencia-artificial-en-el-curriculo-academico-nacional/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","role":"Public accountant","org":"Oficina Nacional de Contabilidad Pública (ONCOP)","text":"Venezuela's National Public Accounting Office (ONCOP) debuted Clara Contadori, an AI chatbot for public accounting, during festivities marking the agency's 25th anniversary on 15 September. Powered by natural language processing, the tool fields questions on the Public Accounting System, helps visitors navigate the ONCOP site, and shares round-the-clock guidance on available coaching and consulting offerings. As an AI-powered virtual assistant for government accounting services, it operates continuously without human staffing limits.","date":"2025-09-05","source":"http://www.oncop.gob.ve/site/vistas/principal/noticias.php?noticia=MTE0OQ%3D%3D&pagina=9"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Venezuela","org":"Cavecom-e","text":"Cavecom-e, the Venezuelan Chamber of Electronic Commerce, put the share of active online retailers using AI in e-commerce at 80%, mainly to lift sales and follow up with buyers before and after purchase. Richard Ujueta added that 40% overall are starting to add AI agents for social-commerce queries.","date":"2025-08-11","source":"https://www.bancaynegocios.com/ocho-de-cada-diez-empresas-que-estan-activas-en-el-comercio-electronico-utilizan-herramientas-de-ia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","role":"Municipal civil servant","org":"Alcaldía de San Diego","text":"Residents in San Diego, Carabobo state, can now message Dieguito, a new AI assistant for citizen services, through WhatsApp any hour of the day to flag broken street lights, potholes and security concerns. Mayor León Jurado Laurentín framed the tool as a move toward quicker, more contemporary handling of neighbourhood requests, confirming it is already running and open to the public. San Diego becomes, according to the mayor, the first municipal authority in Venezuela to roll out this kind of AI-powered virtual assistant for public services, built to speed up 24-hour response.","date":"2025-07-25","source":"https://acn.com.ve/activado-asistente-virtual-dieguito/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Venezuela","role":"Radio presenters and producers","org":"Circuito Líder 94.9 FM","text":"Circuito Líder 94.9 FM in Caracas became Venezuela's first station to run AI-generated radio content without any human hosts, launching 'Vacílate Esto IA' on weekdays. The format clones the voices and personalities of its creators, systematising output through Perplexity and ChatGPT.","date":"2025-03-17","source":"https://lacalle.com.ve/vacilate-esto-ia-primer-programa-de-radio-en-venezuela-realizado-100-con-ia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Venezuela","role":"Radiologists","org":"Hospital Universitario de Caracas","text":"Hospital Universitario de Caracas now runs an AI-powered MRI machine, called by Delcy Rodríguez the nation's first scanner with embedded AI. Radiologists keep final say; the system only flags findings. Officials call it part of a wider shift toward AI-assisted imaging in Venezuelan hospitals.","date":"2025-03-10","source":"https://mpps.gob.ve/ejecutivo-nacional-entrego-resonador-magnetico-con-inteligencia-artificial-al-hospital-universitario-de-caracas/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela","text":"A three-pillar national AI plan Venezuela unveiled under President Nicolás Maduro builds specialised talent, sovereign computing infrastructure for domestic models, and capacity for the ALBA AI agency. Branded the National Artificial Intelligence Plan for Sustainable Development, it launched 25 February 2025 for transformation via innovation, now covering education, health, hydrocarbons, and banking and finance under this sovereign AI development strategy.","date":"2025-02-24","source":"https://prensapresidencialvenezuela.gob.ve/index.php/2025/02/24/venezuela-presenta-el-plan-de-inteligencia-artificial-para-el-desarrollo-sostenible/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Venezuela","org":"Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela","text":"Venezuela's National Assembly unanimously cleared the Artificial Intelligence Bill in a first reading, a Venezuela AI regulation framework spanning 57 articles and four chapters on development, applications and rights safeguards. Lawmakers propose a National AI Agency as oversight body under this AI governance framework. Second discussion lies ahead before enactment.","date":"2024-11-19","source":"https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ve/noticias/an-aprueba-en-primera-discusion-proyecto-de-ley-de-inteligencia-artificial"}]}