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Maritaca AI

Maritaca AI is a privately held Brazilian AI company based in Campinas, São Paulo. Founded in 2022, it develops language technology for Portuguese and Brazilian contexts. Rodrigo Nogueira is its founder and CEO.

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Company & leadership

Founder confirmed by the company: Rodrigo Nogueira
Chief Executive Officer: Rodrigo Nogueira
Legal entity: Maritaca Inteligência Artificial Ltda.

Company background

Maritaca's company profile records 2022 as its founding year and Campinas as its headquarters. The company describes its purpose as adapting AI to the knowledge, language and context of particular regions and sectors. It combines commercial product development with research in Portuguese natural language processing.

Founder and leadership

In a May 2026 article published by Maritaca, Rodrigo Nogueira identifies himself as founder and CEO. He holds a computer science doctorate from New York University. His earlier research includes BERTimbau and the use of deep learning for information retrieval.

Ownership and legal identity

Maritaca is listed as privately held. Its privacy policy names Maritaca Inteligência Artificial Ltda., with Brazilian registration number CNPJ 48.565.396/0001-40, as the company responsible for account and billing data. The reviewed company sources do not provide a full shareholder list or board membership.

Research record

Maritaca publishes technical reports and evaluation datasets alongside its products. Its publication list includes work on Portuguese text generation, Brazilian literature, legal writing, web research and language-model bias. These research areas show a sustained focus on Brazilian language and institutional contexts.

Notable milestones

The first Sabiá technical report appeared in 2023. Maritaca's research record then lists Sabiá 2 and Sabiá 3 reports in 2024, followed by the Sabiá 4 report in 2026.

On 3 November 2026, Maritaca introduced S5 as the next Sabiá generation in its chat product and API. The launch expanded its product offering with adjustable reasoning and tools for work with Brazilian data.