current.obsesion
Multimodal agents, open-weight models and hybrid AI infrastructure between the cloud and distributed local hardware.
Experiments
8 active processes 0x01 
Alcatz Two cats, a thousand adventures. A game built as a family. 0x02 
PadelVex Your digital padel companion. 0x03 
Tita Fashion AI fashion advisor — with judgment, not good manners. 0x04 
StockMachina Systematic trading. Your hardware. Your edge. 0x05 
GrowthMachina Autonomous growth engine for creators and brands. 0x06 
Pulsus Zapia's testing ground. 0x07 
Lenda The open-source AI tutor for emerging economies. 0x08 
HarnessMachina Your AI engine. On your hardware. On your terms.
Alcatz Two cats, a thousand adventures. A game built as a family. 0x02 PadelVex Your digital padel companion. 0x03 Tita Fashion AI fashion advisor — with judgment, not good manners. 0x04 StockMachina Systematic trading. Your hardware. Your edge. 0x05 GrowthMachina Autonomous growth engine for creators and brands. 0x06 Pulsus Zapia's testing ground. 0x07 Lenda The open-source AI tutor for emerging economies. 0x08 HarnessMachina Your AI engine. On your hardware. On your terms. Updates
git log --oneline 44d159 Alcatz adds two new levels: Magic Forest and Water Level
4f073c PadelVex now manages tournaments and americanos
cc4820 Tita Fashion adds localization
87d877 PadelVex lands on Android, with tournament management
1ec342 PadelVex opens its private beta 0e9634 On Thursday, August 20 I'll be at the Legislative Palace talking about the future of AI a9397a Tryolabs joins Qubika 56acdb On Monday, July 27 I'll be on En Perspectiva talking about China and the AI frontier 071b24 Tita Fashion: local fashion catalogs in the looks
d93531 PadelVex: iOS app and local video processing
f1b790 We launched Zapia in Europe! 398596 The China talk at the WTC was a hit ceb7f8 Distributed inference on a DGX Spark cluster
2a5b83 draix.pro is live
initial I give a talk about AI in China, at the WTC see all 15 updates →
Companies
track record
Tryolabs acquired Latin America's leading machine learning consultancy since 2009: from strategy to production, with data science, generative AI, data engineering and MLOps. Acquired by Qubika in 2026. 
MonkeyLearn acquired No-code platform to classify text, analyze sentiment and extract data with machine learning, focused on the US market. A Tryolabs spin-off, acquired by Medallia in 2022. 
DayWatch acquired Real-time analytics for the daily-deals industry (the Groupon era). A Tryolabs spin-off acquired by its main client in Singapore. 
UltraDrop discontinued Solana-based NFT music platform where fans collected drops and experiences from their artists. Launched with No Te Va Gustar and other musicians. Podcast & Vlog
coming soonPodcast episodes, articles and my own videos. Coming soon, right here.
Press
19 appearances · grouped by year 2026 
Ideas Cruzadas: el presente y futuro de la inteligencia artificial en Uruguay y la región 
Inteligencia Artificial: ¿China está cerca de disputarle el liderazgo a Estados Unidos? Con Martín Alcalá Rubí, cofundador de Zapia AI 
Zapia captó US$ 7 millones y acelera el lanzamiento de Zapia Max, su asistente de IA autónoma 
Martín Alcalá Rubí vs. Meta: cuando una startup latinoamericana choca con las grandes plataformas
Ideas Cruzadas: el presente y futuro de la inteligencia artificial en Uruguay y la región Inteligencia Artificial: ¿China está cerca de disputarle el liderazgo a Estados Unidos? Con Martín Alcalá Rubí, cofundador de Zapia AI Zapia captó US$ 7 millones y acelera el lanzamiento de Zapia Max, su asistente de IA autónoma Martín Alcalá Rubí vs. Meta: cuando una startup latinoamericana choca con las grandes plataformas 2025
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2025
2024
2023 
Zapia: Uruguayos crean asistente virtual de Inteligencia Artificial, vía WhatsApp y para A. Latina 
Cómo es Zapia, el primer “ChatGPT” para latinoamericanos 
Zapia: el asistente de IA latinoamericano que conquista Silicon Valley 
Así es Zapia, el primer asistente de IA para latinos que levantó US$ 5 millones 
Martín Alcalá Rubí, fundador y CEO de BrainLogic AI 
Martín Alcalá Rubí, fundador y CEO de BrainLogic AI — Parte 2
Zapia: Uruguayos crean asistente virtual de Inteligencia Artificial, vía WhatsApp y para A. Latina Cómo es Zapia, el primer “ChatGPT” para latinoamericanos Zapia: el asistente de IA latinoamericano que conquista Silicon Valley Así es Zapia, el primer asistente de IA para latinos que levantó US$ 5 millones Martín Alcalá Rubí, fundador y CEO de BrainLogic AI Martín Alcalá Rubí, fundador y CEO de BrainLogic AI — Parte 2 
My stack
agentic AI development[hardware]6
mac-studio = M3 Ultra · 256GB 
dgx-spark = local NVIDIA cluster 
mac-mini = 24/7 home server 
jetson-nano = edge AI & robotics 
iphone = agentic iOS app dev 
pixel = agentic Android dev [models]9
fable-5 = Anthropic 
qwen3.5-122b-a10b = open-weight 
minimax-m2.7 = open-weight 
gemma = open-weight 
yue = full songs with vocals 
ace-step = songs in seconds 
stable-audio-open = samples, loops & textures 
musicgen-melody = humming → instrumental 
rvc-applio = voice timbre conversion [inference & training]5
vllm = distributed serving 
mlx = inference on Apple Silicon 
litellm = multi-model gateway 
qlora = efficient fine-tuning 
langfuse = observability & evals [agents]5
claude-code = my daily driver 
openclaw = personal assistant 
codex-cli = OpenAI 
hermes-agent = Nous Research 
zapia = pocket assistant 
