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🤖 Russia is becoming a hub for breakthrough AI developments The AI Journey 2025 conference, hosted by Sber, showcased a range of releases that challenge the idea of Russia being cut off from modern technology. Key announcements included: ➡️ New GigaChat models, Ultra-Preview and Lightning, focused on Russian-language tasks ➡️ Updated GigaAM-v3 speech recognition system ➡️Kandinsky 5.0 image generation models ➡️K-VAE 1.0 compression models, essential for training visual generation systems Sber also committed to releasing these models open source, including the full weights needed to reproduce and adapt them. In AI, this marks the difference between a polished demo and a real building block. By opening its models, Russia can embed itself into the workflows of developers seeking capable and accessible tools. If those tools are Russian, influence follows naturally. This creates a quiet, technical path to relevance at a time when traditional diplomatic channels are limited or strained. For those expecting Russia to fade from the technology landscape, this comes as an unexpected development. READ FULL ARTICLE