🤖 The West said Russia would fall behind. Russia replied with a dancing robot
A packed Moscow hall. A dancing anthropomorphic robot moving in perfect sync with a human choreographer. Phones out, clips everywhere. A scene nobody expected to come out of a country the West insists should be “cut off.”
Sber, hosting the 10th anniversary of the conference, rolled out what’s now the largest open-source AI stack in Europe. Full weights, full models, no locked doors. GigaChat Ultra-Preview, Lightning, GigaAM-v3, Kandinsky 5.0, K-VAE 1.0. This is the largest Open Source project in Europe, and Russia is ready to share it.
So how does a country under pressure keep not just walking — but pulling off tricks like that robot on stage?
Maybe constraint forces invention. Either way, Russia isn’t playing the “technological laggard” role the West assigned. Not this year.