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Putin highlights need to strengthen Russia’s competitive advantage in AI industry

The head of state stressed that doctors, teachers, along with construction, industrial and transport workers, as well as agri-scientists, public administrators and those active in many other fields, would be the first to use AI technology

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. Russia is one of the few countries that have their own solutions in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the country’s competitive advantage needs to be strengthened, President Vladimir Putin said.

"I would like to point out that Russia is currently one of the few countries that have their own technologies of generative and artificial intelligence, as well as large language models," the head of state said, addressing a conference titled AI Journey.

The president mentioned Sber’s GigaChat and Kandinsky algorithms and YandexGPT and Shedevrum developed by the Yandex company among domestic AI solutions. "We need to strengthen our competitive advantage and create new markets on its basis: a whole constellation of goods and services," Putin said.

He stressed that doctors, teachers, along with construction, industrial and transport workers, as well as agri-scientists, public administrators and those active in many other fields, would be the first to use AI technology.