Russian AI Startup Raises 12 Billion Rubles for Foundation Model
February 17, 2026 at 02:35 PM892 views
AI Investment
A Russian AI startup has secured 12 billion rubles in Series B funding to develop a domestically trained large language model optimized for Russian language.
Technical Approach
- Training data: 4.5 trillion tokens in Russian, English, and CIS languages
- Compute: 2,048 GPU cluster in Yandex Cloud
- Target: GPT-4 class performance on Russian benchmarks
- Launch: Q3 2026
Applications
- Government document processing
- Banking customer service automation
- Legal document review
- Medical diagnosis support
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