- Title: Russia teams up with BRICS to create AI alliance, Putin says
- Date: 11th December 2024
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 11, 2024) (RUSSIAN POOL) VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ENTERING (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, VLADIMIR PUTIN, SAYING: "We are ready to promote the creation and application of generative models not only in Russian, but also in other languages. Algorithms for such systems, as I have already said, should be trusted, that is un
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- Keywords: AI BRICS Putin Russia
- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Europe,Information Technologies / Computer Sciences,Science
- Reuters ID: LVA001649011122024RP1
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- Story Text: President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (December 11) that Russia would develop artificial intelligence with BRICS partners and other countries, a bid to challenge the dominance of the United States in one of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st Century.
Speaking at Russia's flagship AI conference, Putin said the new AI Alliance Network would include national associations and development institutions in the field of AI from BRICS countries and other interested states.
Russia's dominant lender Sberbank SBER.MM is spearheading AI development in Russia, but Sberbank CEO German Gref acknowledged in 2023 that graphics processing units (GPUs), the microchips that underpin AI development, were the trickiest hardware for Russia to replace.
On Wednesday, the bank said national AI associations from BRICS members Brazil, China, India and South Africa, but also from Serbia, Indonesia and other non-BRICS countries, had joined the AI Alliance Network. - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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