By Elena Fabrichnaya and Gleb Bryanski

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Artificial intelligence will bestow vast influence on a par with nuclear weapons to those countries who are able to lead the technology, giving them superiority in the 21st Century, one of Russia’s top AI executive told Reuters.

Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy CEO of Sberbank, which has evolved from a traditional lender into a technology conglomerate focused on AI, said it was an achievement that Russia ranks among seven countries with home-grown AI technologies.

“AI is like a nuclear project. A new ‘nuclear club’ is emerging globally, where either you have your own national large language model (LLM) or you don’t,” Vedyakhin said in an interview at Russia’s flagship annual AI Journey event.

He said Russia must have at least tw

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