Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formation of a national task-force on November 19, 2025, to coordinate and accelerate the development of the country’s home-grown generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Speaking at the “AI Journey” conference, Putin emphasized that reliance on foreign AI systems and large language models (LLMs) is unacceptable for national security and is a critical threat to technological and value-based sovereignty. The initiative aims to ensure Russia possesses a comprehensive set of its own technologies and products in the generative AI field.
The new task-force is mandated to focus on strengthening the physical foundation required for AI development. Key priorities include expanding domestic data centre infrastructure across the country and ensuring a constant, stable, and reliable energy supply for these compute-intensive facilities. Putin specifically highlighted the plan to transition to the serial production of small floating and land-based nuclear power stations to power these data centers, leveraging Russia’s unique nuclear energy expertise.The Kremlin has set an ambitious target for AI technologies to contribute over 11 trillion roubles (approximately $136 billion) to the country’s GDP by 2030. The task-force will work alongside a new national AI implementation plan, urging both state institutions and private companies—such as Sberbank (Gigachat) and Yandex (Yandex GPT)—to accelerate the adoption of domestic AI. This aggressive push is designed to overcome bottlenecks caused by Western sanctions on hardware imports, particularly microchips.
