Russian president bought Sberbank to partner with China

China, Russia AI alliance viewed as risk by the West

DeepSeek success aligns with Sberbank's technique, CEO says

Sberbank made AI platforms publicly available, CEO says

(Adds more quotes, details on Russia's AI sector)

By Gleb Bryanski

MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Sberbank prepares to work together with Chinese researchers on joint AI tasks, a leading executive at Russia's most significant bank informed Reuters, forum.batman.gainedge.org as China's DeepSeek has upended the tech landscape by creating an AI model a lot more inexpensively than U.S. rivals.

Russia and engel-und-waisen.de China, timeoftheworld.date which share what they call a "no limits" strategic collaboration, have long spoke about AI cooperation - including in military applications - but little is openly learnt about its depth or scope.

Sberbank, under CEO German Gref, has changed itself from a Soviet-style former state savings bank strained by difficult bureaucracy into among Russia's leading players in artificial intelligence and launched its GigaChat design in 2023.

"Sberbank has lots of researchers. Through them, we prepare to conduct joint research jobs with scientists from China," Sberbank First Deputy CEO Alexander Vedyakhin informed Reuters. He did not define who the bank plans to work together with in China.

DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based start-up, sent shockwaves through international markets last month as investors bet that its low-cost designs would threaten the dominance of U.S. leaders such as Nvidia.

A potential AI alliance in between Russia and China, cast by Washington as the greatest nation state hazards to the West, macphersonwiki.mywikis.wiki could even more shock the AI sector worldwide amidst a race between China and the United States for AI supremacy.

President Vladimir Putin and surgiteams.com Xi Jinping share a broad world view which represents the West as decadent and in decline, as China obstacles U.S. supremacy in whatever from AI and quantum computing to synthetic biology and difficult military power.

The West's efforts to separate Russia over the war in Ukraine have actually pushed Moscow and Beijing more detailed - and Putin has in recent months explained China as an "ally".

"China is a partner of Russia on lots of problems of the global agenda, and the level of clinical cooperation between our nations can be strengthened through cooperation in between our scientists," Sberbank's First Deputy CEO added.

AI ALLIANCE?

Putin has instructed Sberbank, yogicentral.science which is under Western sanctions, to construct cooperation with China and other BRICS countries in AI to challenge U.S. supremacy. But the real state of Russia's own AI tasks is tough to evaluate as some are secret.

Like China, Russia is having a hard time to develop domestic computing capability due to sanctions that restrict imports of the current Western hardware, and is looking for alternative solutions to remain competitive in the AI race.

Russia currently ranks 31st out of 83 countries for AI application, development, and financial investment according to UK-based Tortoise Media's Global AI Index, trailing not only the United States and China however likewise fellow BRICS members India and Brazil.

Vedyakhin said that considering that the launch of DeepSeek's designs, Sberbank has compared them to GigaChat MAX, e.bike.free.fr its most sophisticated design, developing that the Chinese competitor was superior in scientific jobs, while GigaChat was on par or much better in banking.

Vedyakhin noted that DeepSeek's success aligns with Sberbank's technique of discovering affordable solutions instead of investing billions in computing infrastructure megaprojects like Stargate, an endeavor announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"DeepSeek has actually shown that even with decreased abilities, it is possible to attain quality on par with American models. This raises questions about the need of severe financial investments when there are engineering innovations," Vedyakhin said.

Vedyakhin said that, like the creators of DeepSeek, Sberbank has actually made the majority of its AI platforms openly available, consisting of the text-to-image model Kandinsky, called after the 20th-century progressive painter Vassily Kandinsky, and its base model GigaChat Lite.

"The success of DeepSeek is mainly due to its transparency, which contrasts with the secrecy of OpenAI. This has drawn in a big neighborhood," Vedyakhin said. (Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Alexander Smith)