  We are 600 million Spanish speakers. We launched the #Somos600M Project
because the diversity of the languages from LATAM, the Caribbean and Spain
needs to be represented in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Despite being
the 7.5% of the world population, there is no open dataset to instruction-tune
large language models (LLMs), nor a leaderboard to evaluate and compare them.
In this paper, we present how we have created as an international open-source
community the first versions of the instruction and evaluation datasets,
indispensable resources for the advancement of Natural Language Processing
(NLP) in our languages.
