Did an AI war just get one step closer? Putin confirms Russia is planning its own national AI taskforce

Vladmir Putin on national AI initiative.

• Russia forms a national AI task force to ensure technological and national sovereignty
• President Putin insists only Russian-designed AI systems will serve national security purposes
• Sberbank and Yandex develop homegrown LLMs like Gigachat and Yandex GPT

President Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia will establish a national task force to coordinate the development and deployment of domestically produced artificial intelligence.