Sberbank Seeks Chinese Chips to Power Russia's GigaChat AI Model
Sberbank’s chief said the bank hopes to use Chinese microchips for GigaChat as sanctions limit access to advanced foreign hardware.
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Sberbank seeks Chinese chips to power Russia's GigaChat AI model
Russia's GigaChat AI Turns to China-Made Chips Amid Western Sanctions
Russia's GigaChat AI Turns to China-Made Chips Amid Western Sanctions Published on 20/05/2026 05:16 PM Shubhangi Dua Wed, 05/20/2026 - 17:02 Sberbank’s GigaChat AI model is set to be powered by China-made AI chips. GigaChat AI, developed by Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, is a generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) chatbot. Earlier today, Wednesday, May 20, German Gref, Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive of Sberbank,…
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Tom's HardwareRussia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba
CEO German Gref didn't specify which Chinese chips Sberbank is interested in, but the most likely candidate is Huawei's Ascend 950 family.
CoinStats - Sberbank bets on Chinese chips: Russia’s race...
Russia is accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and is looking increasingly to China to circumvent Western restrictions.At the center of this strategy is Sberbank, Russia’s main financial institution, which wants to strengthen the GigaChat model using Chinese AI chips in an increasingly competitive global context. GigaChat and Russia’s challenge to global artificial intelligence As we know, the global race for artificial i…
Russia is planning to run its leading artificial intelligence model using Chinese chips, the CEO of Sberbank announced during President Vladimir Putin's visit to China.
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