Dmitry Ivankov, an expert at the SKB Kontur Artificial Intelligence

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rketing and Communications Director of Raketa LLC Daria Zubritskaya believes that additional measures to support AI are important for the development of the industry: "At the moment, only large companies can afford to develop AI-based tools, which limits the market's ability to release new AI products. Support will help diversify the list of products and companies in the AI ​​field."

"Artificial intelligence is usa whatsapp resource one of the key technologies that can significantly impact the economy and society as a whole. Support may include funding for startups, grants for scientific research, tax incentives and the creation of a favorable regulatory environment. Such measures will help accelerate the development of innovation, increase the competitiveness of domestic companies and create new jobs," said Valery Nikanorov, leader of the Fundamental Services cluster of the Sphere Platform.

Center, sees the main objective of support measures as expanding the use of AI: "New support measures would help accelerate the development of AI and stimulate its active use in various areas of life. Such support measures could include funding for research, training specialists, creating infrastructure for developing and implementing new technologies. And also, for example, supporting startups that work in this area. Such support would help overcome the technical and organizational barriers that companies and research groups currently face when working on new AI-based projects."

Oleg Li also called the level of AI penetration in Russia extremely low, which is caused by objective reasons, primarily a shortage of personnel and computing power.

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As Oleg Li emphasized, in terms of the number of scientific publications, Russia lags significantly behind the leaders — the United States and China. According to him, their number for 2023 did not exceed 150, and their authors — no more than 30, while China's figures for the same period are at least an order of magnitude higher. As Oleg Li noted, one of the measures envisaged within the framework of the national project "Data Economy" will be the creation of at least 12 research centers in the field of AI by 2030.

Another problematic point, according to Oleg Li, is the small number of startups. The volume of their financing, according to the deputy head of the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Development, is 1000 times less than in the United States, while in Russia there are no measures to support such companies at relatively late stages of development. Oleg Li announced the emergence of new financing programs for such companies by the end of 2024.