---
title: "AI in Argentina: the 3 pitfalls holding companies back — Marsanne Studio AI watch"
description: "Argentina is debating AI regulation while experts identify three pitfalls holding back adoption by SMEs."
url: "https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch/ai-in-argentina-the-3-pitfalls-holding-companies-473494/"
lang: "en"
---

[Marsanne Studio](https://marsanne.studio/en/)

[← Back to home](https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch)

[← The AI watch](https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch)

Analysis · 26 September 2026

# AI in Argentina: the 3 pitfalls holding companies back

Original title, in Spanish: “IA en Argentina: las 3 trampas que frenan a las empresas – El Ecosistema Startup”

**Publication**

El Ecosistema Startup (Spain)

**Author**

Unsigned

**Published on**

26 September 2026 · read in the page structured data

## Summary

In Argentina, the debate on AI regulation has pitted President Milei's offer of deregulation against calls for international rules made by the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic at the UN. Researcher Julia Pomares, quoted by Bloomberg Línea, identifies three pitfalls holding back Argentine SMEs in adopting AI: believing it is enough to plug in a tool without working on data quality, multiplying pilots that never scale, and leaving a "broken bridge" between the business and technology. The article draws a comparison with Singapore, where the Spark GenAI programme (DBS, Enterprise Singapore, IMDA) subsidises up to 50% of AI adoption costs for SMEs and connects companies with more than 16,000 providers, and with India, which is aiming for mass adoption of AI among its SMEs. According to an IDC study relayed by Microsoft, agentic AI adoption stands at 37% in Singapore against 36% on average worldwide, and only 13% of organisations in Asia-Pacific are "frontier firms" against 31% in North America.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on El Ecosistema Startup →](https://ecosistemastartup.com/ia-en-argentina-las-3-trampas-que-frenan-a-las-empresas/)

## Figures cited

-   60 %
    
    generative AI adoption among the Singaporean population
    
    Singapore, general population
    
    > « más del 60% de la población singapurense ya utiliza IA generativa »
    
    Source: IDC
    
-   37 %
    
    enterprise adoption of agentic AI in Singapore
    
    Singapore, companies
    
    > « la adopción empresarial de agentic AI llega al 37% en Singapur, en línea con el promedio global del 36% »
    
    Source: IDC
    
-   36 %
    
    global average enterprise adoption of agentic AI
    
    Global, companies
    
    > « en línea con el promedio global del 36% »
    
    Source: IDC
    
-   13 %
    
    share of Asia-Pacific organisations classed as "frontier firms"
    
    Asia-Pacific, organisations
    
    > « solo el 13% de las organizaciones en Asia-Pacífico califican como "frontier firms" »
    
    Source: IDC
    
-   31 %
    
    share of North American organisations classed as "frontier firms"
    
    North America, organisations
    
    > « frente al 31% de Norteamérica »
    
    Source: IDC
    
-   39 %
    
    share of Singaporean SMEs seeking expert support for AI
    
    Singapore, SMEs
    
    > « el 39% de las pymes buscan asesoramiento experto para integrar IA de manera significativa »
    
    Source: Spark GenAI / DBS, Enterprise Singapore, IMDA
    
-   50 %
    
    maximum subsidy of eligible costs via Enterprise Singapore
    
    Singapore, SMEs, Spark GenAI programme
    
    > « ofrece subsidios de hasta el 50% sobre costos elegibles a través de Enterprise Singapore »
    
    Source: Spark GenAI
    
-   16,000 providers
    
    number of solution providers accessible via IMDA's Open Innovation Platform
    
    Singapore
    
    > « conectar a las empresas con una red de más de 16.000 proveedores de soluciones vía la Open Innovation Platform del IMDA »
    
    Source: IMDA
    

## Classification

**Country**

Argentina, Singapore, India, United States

**Company size**

SMEs, All sizes

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Companies**

Enterprise Singapore (supplier), DBS (supplier), Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) (supplier), Microsoft (cited), OpenAI (cited), Anthropic (cited), IDC (study author)

**Keywords**

AI regulation, SMEs, AI adoption, Argentina, Singapore, AI pilots

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to El Ecosistema Startup. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.