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Putin Unveils Sovereignty-First AI Agenda at Sber’s AI Journey Forum

The speech outlined sovereignty-first AI goals, leaving timelines, funding unspecified.

Overview

  • Putin warned against reliance on foreign neural networks, calling it a matter of state, technological and value sovereignty.
  • He urged ensuring stable, independent national digital infrastructure to support training of domestic generative models.
  • He proposed a joint program with business to develop data centers dedicated to AI workloads.
  • He said Russian specialists must control all stages of AI model development and that security services and some government work should use only domestic base technologies.
  • He paired the push with human-capital and outreach goals, stressing stronger engineering education, cautioning against a social divide, reaffirming cooperation through BRICS and India, and citing an AI GDP contribution target above 11 trillion rubles by 2030.