Alan Descoins and Tryolabs Named to TIME’s “TIME100AI 2025” List
August 26, 2025
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: countering overfishing by analyzing the catch as it hits a boat's deck, or detecting wildfires when they’re merely a plume of smoke. But for Alan Descoins, the CEO of Uruguay-based AI consultancy Tryolabs, these are real, AI-driven solutions currently in development.
A self-taught coder from age 12, Descoins was among Tryolabs' first employees nearly 15 years ago, when machine-learning solutions were still a hard sell. Today, while the company works with corporate clients including Nvidia, Hyundai, and Ulta Beauty, it also makes mission-led nonprofit work a core component of its business. Last year, Tryolabs partnered with UNICEF on an AI tool that visualizes heatwave indicators and tracks children’s exposure to extreme temperatures; the open-source project hopes to inform intervention techniques. In May, the company worked with The Nature Conservancy to create an AI monitoring system for cameras onboard industrial fishing vessels; by converting hours of footage into near real-time data, the AI helps prevent unsustainable fishing. It has also built AI tools to help forecast the solar power a panel can generate, follow lions in the wild so their lands can be protected, and improve systems identifying rural schools from satellites so aid workers can connect them to the internet. In some cases, Tryolabs’ private-sector work helps defray the costs of these social good projects.
“You have to think of AI as like one piece in a system; you don't have to think about AI as the end goal,” Descoins tells TIME. “You have to make sure that the implementation of your AI component will actually make the entire system better.”
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