RKTech invests in Entropy to scale LATAM AI engineering talent

On paper, RKTech’s investment in Entropy looks like another IT services roll‑up, but the subtext is about where the world will source the engineering muscle for large‑scale AI deployment. RKTech, backed by Vietnam’s Rikkeisoft and ultimately tied into Sumitomo, is building a “Best Shore” model that stitches together Asia and Latin America into a single follow‑the‑sun talent pool for IoT, cloud, and AI projects. Entropy brings deep coverage across Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Southern Europe, giving RKTech immediate reach into two million regional tech professionals, according to the release. ([aijourn.com](https://aijourn.com/rktech-invests-in-entropy-unlocking-access-to-two-million-latam-technology-professionals/))

In the AGI context, this speaks to a quieter competitive dimension: whoever controls scalable, affordable human capital for model integration, evaluation, and ops will be able to productize frontier models faster and cheaper. As hyperscalers pour capex into GPUs, systems integrators are racing to assemble globally distributed teams that can actually build things with those models—enterprise copilots, multi‑modal workflows, safety tooling, and data pipelines. Vietnam‑Japan capital backing a LATAM‑U.S. services play shows how geographically diffuse this layer is becoming.

The long‑term implication is that AI talent “supply chains” will start to matter almost as much as chip supply chains. Firms like RKTech and Entropy won’t set the pace of fundamental model research, but they can accelerate how quickly new capabilities diffuse into mainstream industries, especially in emerging markets.