Colossus Lab
Argentine think tank researching AI's effect on the national economy and public policy.
Colossus Lab, an Argentine think tank researching AI's economic effects, was reported on 14 September 2026 to have modelled Argentina's AI gains leaking abroad as intellectual-property rent, pulling national income gains below GDP gains.
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Background
Colossus Lab is an Argentine think tank that studies how artificial intelligence is reshaping the national economy and the policy choices it forces onto government.
Its modelling of Argentina's AI upside distinguishes GDP gains, the value AI-linked activity adds inside the country, from national income gains, what Argentine households and firms actually keep once payments for foreign-owned software, models and intellectual property are subtracted. The lab finds the gap material enough that AI's measured contribution to output overstates the benefit reaching Argentines.
The figure gives Argentine officials debating AI strategy a citable lower bound on how much of the country's AI-driven gains stay at home, rather than leaving as payments to foreign owners of the underlying technology.
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