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Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Tajikistan Sherali Kabir met with Owen Larter, Head of Government Affairs at Google DeepMind. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Tajikistan.
During the meeting, the parties discussed prospects for expanding cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). It was noted that the Ministry's AI Council is working to further train SoroLLM, a language model for the Tajik language developed by Tajik specialists, using Google DeepMind's Gemma AI model. The SoroLLM baseline model has already been implemented in 100 schools across the country as part of the national initiative "Project Soro."
The minister also spoke about the Area AI special AI zone project, which allows leading AI companies to develop and export AI solutions from Tajikistan using an AI sandbox mechanism. Major AI companies such as Perplexity AI, Cerebras Systems, Supermicro, and Yotta Data Services are members of the Area AI Consortium.
Owen Larter expressed interest in deepening cooperation with the Republic of Tajikistan in developing advanced AI models for education, as well as participating in the Area AI project.
