The Ministry of Digital Transformation has launched a separate unit for artificial intelligence — primarily aimed at «comprehensive integration of» AI solutions into the state, but with plans to create competitors to DeepSeek and OpenAI (in the future). «Of course, in 2025, we cannot say that tomorrow we will have a competitor to OpenAI or DeepSeek. But we will do everything we can to make it happen,» says Mykhailo Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation. What will the unit do? The WINWIN AI Center of Excellence (the name of the division) is among the priorities of the division: development of a national strategy and program for investing in research and development of AI solutions; creating the «best legal environment in the world» for the development of artificial intelligence; growth of AI startups by 50% annually (minimum); developing the status of the state with the largest number of AI specialists in Europe. There are separate plans for 2025 — and here, interestingly enough, the creation of a «national LLM model for public services», as well as the integration of artificial intelligence into applications «Action» and «Mriya». Who is the head of the team and what specialists are they […]