After holding top positions across the Russian energy industry for more than a decade, Oleg Dubnov has been heading Skolkovo’s energy cluster since 2017. He shared with East-West Digital News fresh insights about the emergence of green technologies in Russia, the related industrial challenges and the international potential of Russian startups in this field. So …
Sber, Russia’s state-controlled financial and tech giant, and its US partner 500 Startups announce the third batch of Sber500, their joint startup acceleration program. The closing date for entries is January 10, 2021. This batch is touted as a “powerful response to the current challenges and conditions that startups faced in 2020.” The program will …
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Last week Sber, Russia’s financial and tech giant (previously known as Sberbank) announced plans to open an international institute for artificial intelligence in Russia as early January 2021. Sber’s head Herman Gref defined the main mission of the institute as “to provide an interdisciplinary approach to research” in the field of AI. At the …
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Sber, the state-controlled financial and tech giant (previously known as Sberbank) has acquired a 8% stake in Watchout!AI in exchange for a acquired 8%. The startup was valued at 125 million rubles, or $1.6 million at the current exchange rate. Founded in 2019, Watchout!AI uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms to “easily detect and prevent brand …
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Sber has presented its leaderboard called Russian SuperGLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation), the first ranking of neural networks for the Russian language. A neural network’s ranking position depends on how well it deals with tasks in logic, commonsense, reasoning, and general language understanding. Designed by the SberAI team with Huawei and the Higher School of Economics, the …
Over the last years, X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer listed on the London and Moscow stock exchanges, has undertaken a process of deep digital transformation from procurement automation, to facial recognition, to video analytics. As Head of X5 Technologies, Anton Mironenkov, leads a team of some 2,500 professionals. In this interview with …
Russian petrochemical major Sibur told East-West Digital News it has developed a technology which allows high-precision modeling of physicochemical processes in petrochemical production. This technology is unique for Russia, says the company. A pilot project was launched at Tomskneftekhim in Tomsk, Siberia, where a digital model of a high-pressure polyethylene reactor made it possible to significantly optimize …
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Robofest, one of the largest technology festivals for young people in the world, is being held these days in online format. Its participants have developed solutions which could be used soon in the automotive, agricultural and aviation industries. For example, a team of students from Don State Technical University has presented a robotic manipulator, which is considered …
Sber, the Russian state-controlled financial and tech giant, is teaming up with Visa to launch “Russia’s first Data Lab.” The partners intend to “use anonymized data to track changes in customer behavior and design the most customized offerings for all users of card products by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning tools.” “The move is aimed at …
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X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer, is deploying a robotic telephone platform based on advanced speech technologies. Used to handle incoming calls and make outgoing calls without human intervention, the group’s new voice assistants simulate dialogue with customers and help resolve their issues. “After the caller formulates a question, the bot uses complex machine learning algorithms and accumulated data to identify the …
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It was a big week for the Russian tech market. The NASDAQ-listed Internet giant Yandex took a big leap into the financial sector with the announcement of plans to purchase digital bank Tinkoff for $5.5 billion. Days later, the country’s largest bank, state-controlled Sberbank, launched a major rebranding in which CEO German Gref gave a Steve …
Sberbank, Russia’s state-controlled financial behemoth, is showcasing what it calls the biggest transformation in its history, as it unveils a suite of new technology products in an aggressive drive to get deeper into the tech sector. In a flashy presentation Thursday morning — echoing Apple’s famous annual product launches which attract millions of viewers and …
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