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Twenty strategically significant agreements worth $117 million were signed at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI Conf 2025), according to the press service of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Among the key ones is the creation of the Area AI Investment Consortium, the world’s first Special Artificial Intelligence Zone with an AI academy and research laboratories;
Epsilon3.ai and Perplexity AI have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies to implement Comet Browser;
Launch of a joint venture between darya.ai and Yotta to build a green data center in Darvaza;
Strategic partnership between Presight AI (G42) and zypl.ai to create the National Cloud Center and AI infrastructure of Tajikistan;
The AI Council has partnered with Smart City Dushanbe and Humo Bank to introduce the subject "Artificial Intelligence" into the school education system.
The event brought together over 400 participants—representatives of government agencies, international organizations, technology companies, and research centers from the UAE, France, the United States, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other countries. The conference included presentations by experts from leading global companies on global trends in AI infrastructure, the development of AGI and multilingual models, and a discussion of Central Asia's role in the global AI ecosystem. Speakers noted the active development of partnerships with local companies and emphasized that Tajikistan is gradually becoming a key hub for their operations and growth in the region.
During eight thematic panel sessions, participants discussed key aspects of artificial intelligence applications in management, education, finance, infrastructure, and science. The conference program also included an AI Expo, where international and national companies, startups, and research teams presented their developments and projects, including the Soro LLM language model, trained on a vast database of Tajik texts, including educational and synthetically generated materials (over 1 billion words), demonstrating high accuracy in the Tajik language; darya.ai, the region's first NVIDIA H200-based AI cluster powered by renewable hydropower; and others.
The conference's results confirmed Tajikistan's role as an emerging technology hub in the region and a leader in the responsible development of artificial intelligence. AI Conf 2025 marked a significant milestone in the implementation of the National Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy (AI-2040), approved with UN support, and paves the way for the formation of a self-sufficient AI ecosystem in Central Asia. The next conference is scheduled for 2026; AI Conf will become an annual international platform for sharing experiences and developing AI initiatives.
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DUSHANBE. /TASS/. — Twenty strategically significant agreements worth a total of $117 million were signed at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI Conf 2025), the press service of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Tajikistan reported.
According to the organizers, key agreements included: the creation of the Area AI Investment Consortium—the world's first Specialized Artificial Intelligence Zone with an AI Academy and research labs; an agreement between Epsilon3.ai and Perplexity AI with the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies to implement the Comet agent-based AI browser; the launch of a joint venture between darya.ai and Yotta to build a green data center in Darvaza; a strategic partnership between Presight AI (G42) and zypl.ai to create the National Cloud Center and AI infrastructure of Tajikistan; and partnership agreements between the AI Council, Smart City Dushanbe, and Humo Bank to introduce the subject of Artificial Intelligence into the school education system.
The event brought together over 400 participants—representatives of government agencies, international organizations, technology companies, and research centers from the UAE, France, the United States, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and other countries. The program included presentations by experts from leading global companies on global trends in AI infrastructure, the development of AGI and multilingual models, and a discussion of Central Asia's role in the global AI ecosystem. The experts noted the active development of partnerships with local companies and emphasized that Tajikistan is gradually becoming a key hub for their operations and growth in the region.
The conference featured eight thematic panel sessions discussing the application of artificial intelligence in governance, education, finance, infrastructure, and scientific research. The AI Expo also showcased developments and projects from major international and national companies, startups, and research teams, including the Soro LLM language model, trained on over one billion words of Tajik text, and the darya.ai platform—an NVIDIA H200-based AI cluster powered by renewable hydropower.
The organizers note that the results of AI Conf 2025 confirm Tajikistan's status as an emerging technology hub in the region and a leader in the responsible development of artificial intelligence. The conference marked an important milestone in the implementation of the National Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy (AI-2040), approved with UN support, and paves the way for the development of a self-sufficient AI ecosystem in Central Asia. AI Conf is planned to become an annual international platform for sharing experiences and developing AI initiatives; the next forum is scheduled for 2026.
