Overview
- Speaking at Sber's AI Journey conference in Moscow, Vladimir Putin said critical reliance on external neural networks cannot be allowed, calling it a matter of state, technological and value sovereignty.
- He said Russia must ensure the stability and independence of its national digital infrastructure to develop generative AI and train Russian-language models.
- Putin stated that domestic AI systems should be trained and fully controlled by Russian specialists at every stage.
- He described work on advanced AI models as a driver to strengthen Russia's engineering school and to build unique competencies across the full creation cycle of language models.
- He called artificial intelligence a challenge for the education system, urging approaches that teach children to think while using AI tools rather than merely pressing buttons.