While other artificial intelligence chabots already existed on the internet, the launch of ChatGPT last year was revolutionary. Since then, dozens of other conversation models have been programmed for users around the world.

In what appears to be a race to conquer the world of artificial intelligence, Russia not far behind. Sberbank, a major Russian banking and technology company, applied chatbot that mimics ChatGPT but communicates in fluent Russian.

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According to a statement on the company’s website, the name of the chatbot is “GigChat” And represents “a first” for Russia. The group specified that it will initially be “only available in test mode, with an invite” from the company.

Details of all the features of the artificial intelligence model are not yet available, but Sber announced that it could “having a conversation, writing texts, answering factual questions”as well as “computer programming” and “making pictures from descriptions”.

German Gref, president and CEO of the company, assured that the launch of this conversational robot “represents a breakthrough for the entire universe of Russian technologies”.

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According to Reuters, the company has been investing heavily in the technology sector for years. The medium points it out Sber’s largest shareholder is the Russian National Investment Fund, managed by Vladimir Putin’s government.

With investments in technology and in the wave of artificial intelligence, Russia would ensure that it no longer relies on internationally created products that can bridge the country’s communication gap.