Sber presented Europe’s largest open-source project at AI Journey as it opened access to its flagship models — the GigaChat Ultra-Preview and Lightning, in addition to a new generation of the GigaAM-v3 open-source models for speech recognition and a full range of image and video generation models in the new Kandinsky 5.0 line, including the Video Pro, Video Lite and Image Lite.

The GigaChat Ultra-Preview, a new MoE model featuring 702 billion parameters, has been compiled specifically with the Russian language in mind and trained entirely from scratch. Read a detailed post from the team here.

For the first time in Russia, an MoE model of this scale has been trained entirely from scratch — without relying on any foreign weights. Training from scratch, and on such a scale to boot, is a challenge that few teams in the world have taken on.

Our flagship Kandinsky Video Pro model has caught up with Veo 3 in terms of visual quality and surpassed Wan 2.2-A14B. Read a detailed post from the team here.

The code and weights for all models are now available to all users under MIT license, including commercial use.