Overview
- President Vladimir Putin instructed the government and the presidential administration to work out creating a single headquarters to coordinate AI activity, stressing that domestic models must be trained and controlled by Russian specialists.
- He asked the cabinet and regional leaders to draft a nationwide plan for deploying generative AI across sectors, linking the effort to a target for AI to contribute more than 11 trillion rubles to GDP by 2030.
- The infrastructure agenda includes a proposed program to expand data centers for AI tasks, with growing nuclear‑energy capacity cited as a way to increase computing power.
- For public services, ONF and Sber say a GigaChat‑based system will route Direct Line appeals in about 10 seconds with over 90% accuracy, easing work for more than 3,000 officials, and the Kremlin says AI is improving this processing each year.
- Follow‑up responses highlight next steps: a Duma committee chair backs state planning with balanced safeguards, an academic prioritizes first rules for medicine, finance and personal data, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko reports 13 AI research teams formed under a federal project.