R&D

Moscow business school develops pioneering solution for remote courses

July 14, 2022

Russian edtech has been growing fast over the past years, as witnessed by variety of solutions developed in the country. One of the latest examples is an immersive online-offline platform for remote courses, which was presented earlier this month by the Moscow State University Business School (MSUBS). Touting this solution as a “unique digital model” …

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Yandex publishes YaLM 100B, the largest GPT-like neural network in open source

June 27, 2022

Yandex has published YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. It’s the largest GPT-like model in the public domain. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world. YaLM 100B contains 100 billion parameters, more than any GPT-like model available in open-source under a license that …

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Russian writer and neural network team up to compose 24 short stories

June 3, 2022

Russian writer and artist Pavel Pepperstein and generative neural network ruGPT-3 have co-authored a story book called Trying to Wake Up. The book has just been published in Moscow by independent publisher Individuum. Trying to Wake Up is touted as “the world’s first collection of short stories resulting from the collaboration of a writer and a neural …

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Decarbonization: Russian scientists bet on AI while government sets meagre country goals

February 17, 2022

Sber, Russia’s state-controlled financial and digital giant (previously known as Sberbank), and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), intend to develop software program to “evaluate the carbon balance drawing on remote sensing of the Earth.” The program aims to “facilitate the comprehensive analysis [which is] required [to make] effective decarbonization decisions and design …

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Kalashnikov Group patents steel and plastic electric car

November 29, 2021

Russian weapon maker Kalashnikov Group has patented exterior and interior features of its new UV4 electric car, designed for the consumer market. The information appears in the database of Russia’s Federal Institute of Industrial Property. UV4 is equipped with an electric motor with a capacity of 50 kW (68 hp), which will allow the car to reach the speed …

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Sber to open R&D center in Berlin “to expand horizons in machine learning”

November 5, 2021

Sber, the Russian financial and digital giant, is preparing to open an R&D center in Berlin — its first one in Western Europe. These plans were announced by Sber’s Executive Vice President and CTO, David Rafalovsky at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon. This initiative aims to attract high-class IT developers, architects and specialists. “Our center is …

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Skoltech scientists use supercomputer to probe limits of Google’s quantum processor

September 27, 2021

Two Skoltech research units — the Laboratory for Quantum Information Processing of the Skoltech center of Photonics & Quantum Materials (CPQM) and the ‘Zhores’ supercomputing team of the Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE) — have teamed up to emulate Google’s quantum processor. Reproducing noiseless data following the same statistics as Google’s …

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Skoltech and IBM researchers create energy-efficient optical switch for next-gen computers

September 25, 2021

An international research team led by Skoltech and IBMResearch has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating photons rather than electrons. In addition to direct power saving, the switch requires no cooling and is really fast: at 1 trillion operations per second, it is …

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The pursuit of a human face: Can interfaces make machine learning accessible?

September 24, 2021

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in various business processes is on the rise. This is evidenced, for example, by the steadily increasing media coverage, which indicates an increasing relevance of the technology. A growing number of application practices confirm the fact: the ICT.Moscow database, in 2021 alone, collected more than a …

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Russian Academy of Sciences and top university to use Big Data to analyze international relations

September 9, 2021

The Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) and the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) have signed an agreement to jointly develop a platform for Big Data analysis in the field of international relations.  This platform will be used by students and researchers to solve applied problems of Russia’s ministry …

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Russian tech exports up threefold since 2018

September 10, 2021

Russia’s earnings from tech exports have jumped more than threefold over the last two years, according to a new report from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE). The export sales of scientific and technology services and IP-protected products reached $4.5 billion in 2020 — up 30% from 2019, three times more than in 2018, and fifteen to twenty …

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