Russia's artificial intelligence development is hindered by Western sanctions, an exodus of tech talent, and ideological constraints, causing it to fall behind global leaders like China and the U.S.
In May 2024, Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russia n president fond of chastising the West, lashed out at a smart speaker. He criticized Alice, a device produced by Russia n technology giant Yandex , for refusing to answer a question about Ukrainian monuments to Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian who led an insurgent war against Soviet forces and collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.
a U.S. technology company specializing in the graphics processing units GPUs that power AI's backbone, almost immediately stopped supplying chips to Russia. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which uses American technology, also ended its supply. According to the expert with insider knowledge at Sber, the company has managed to accumulate around 9,000 GPUs since February 2022, although those numbers can't be independently confirmed by RFE/RL.
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