While the US and China compete for AI dominance, Russia’s leading model lags behind

• Russia has touted its leading LLM, GigaChat MAX, as part of a national AI strategy.
• But the model is “unremarkable” and lags behind US and Chinese offerings, AI experts told BI.
• While the war in Ukraine has stunted development, Moscow may still be developing military AI.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants his country to compete in the global race to build AI, besting models coming out of China and the US. But its flagship large language…