The AI Transition, Seen from Boston

What We Learned on CUTI's Business Mission

Many companies won't make it through the AI transition. That was the first idea we heard in Boston, on day one at MIT, and it stayed with us for the rest of the week.

From October 26 to 30, Federico Kauffman, our CTO, joined CUTI's business mission to Boston. CUTI, the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies, brought 37 people from the Uruguayan tech ecosystem: more than 20 companies, the public sector (ANDE, ANII, Ceibal, Uruguay XXI and the Uruguayan Embassy) and academia (UTEC and ORT). The agenda covered Cambridge, Boston and Providence, with a focus on applied research, entrepreneurship and investment. You can read CUTI's own recap here.

These are the visits and ideas we brought back.

MIT: there's no single recipe for the AI transition

The week opened at MIT with a talk on how companies are moving from pre-AI to AI-native, and which ones will succeed.

According to the talk, those paths are basically two: industrialization, or high customer satisfaction. We left feeling Streaver is on the right track, as one of many companies working through the same transition.

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Boston Dynamics: a tour we'd waited years for

On Thursday we visited Boston Dynamics in Waltham. For Fede, it was the best visit of the week. We'd followed their robots for years, and seeing them in person was mind-blowing.

The facilities show every generation of their robots, from the very first versions to today's. And behind them, great people and great minds.

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Harvard: quantum computing and the classroom of the future

At Harvard, the conversation turned to quantum computing. Our takeaway: it's definitely coming. Probably not as consumer technology, but in ways that will indirectly benefit all of us.

On the last day, at Harvard Business School, we visited their virtual classrooms for teachers. It was a fantastic experience.

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Boston vs. San Francisco: two very different tech scenes

This month we saw both. Before Boston, part of our team was in San Francisco for Vercel Ship 2026. The difference is clear.

For us, the two trips had different goals. In San Francisco, we went mostly to tech conferences, hoping to meet people from the industry. In Boston, we went to learn.

Seeing both in the same month showed us two different ways a tech ecosystem can grow.

Uruguayans in Boston

One of the best moments of the week was an event with Uruguayans living in Boston, organized by UTEC. We met people working at the intersection of AI and hardware.

At Venture Café we met a few people from MIT and had great conversations. Some of the people we met already knew about Streaver. Most didn't, and that's part of why we go.

The mission also overlapped with The Engine's Tough Tech Week, so Fede joined some of its events, like Chile Innovation Night.

Traveling with the other Uruguayan companies was also a reminder of how much we share. Everyone is finding their own way, and we are stronger together.

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What we're bringing back

If another Uruguayan tech company asked us whether to join CUTI's next mission, our answer is simple: you should definitely do it. Thank you to CUTI for organizing the week and for everything we learned.

We came back with new ideas on how companies are going through the AI transition, and on where ours fits.