The AI support law will help domestic developers, Mishustin said

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the law on supporting the development of artificial intelligence provides a wide range of assistance tools for domestic developers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that lays the legal basis for the development, implementation and application of large fundamental artificial intelligence models in Russia.

A number of provisions of the law to support the development of AI come into force on September 1.

MOSCOW, October 6 – RIA Novosti. The Law on Supporting the Development of Artificial Intelligence provides a wide range of assistance tools for domestic developers, said Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

“It (the law on supporting the development of AI - ed.) stipulates that domestic developers will be able to take advantage of the widest range of assistance tools; a wide variety of data sources will be available for training fundamental models,” Mishustin said at the plenary session of the Digital Solutions forum.

At the end of July, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that lays the legal basis for the development, implementation and application of large fundamental artificial intelligence models in Russia, introduces the concepts of sovereign and national AI models and gives their developers access to government data for training. A number of its provisions have been in effect since September 1.