President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called for a national task force to coordinate Russia's work on homegrown generative artificial intelligence models, which he said were vital to preserving Russian sovereignty.

Putin said large-language models have become a major instrument in spreading information and are capable of influencing the views of entire nations. He added that dependency on LLMs designed in other countries was not acceptable for Russia. "For Russia, it is a matter of national, technological and value-based sovereignty. Therefore, our country must possess a comprehensive set of its own technologies and products in the field of generative AI," Putin said at AI Journey, Russia's flagship AI event.

Putin said the task force should focus on developing data centres across the co

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