More than 1,200 Russian startups will be able to benefit from support on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said.

He said that the government has approved the rules for granting subsidies to support pilot projects for approbation of AI technologies and grant support for small enterprises to develop and commercialize solutions in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as accelerating projects using AI and holding hackathons on this topic.

"Important results of the federal project will be support for developers of AI solutions through grants, accelerator programs and subsidizing pilot implementations in the industry, it is planned to support more than 1200 start-up projects," - said the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, referring to Chernyshenko.

In addition six reference research centres for artificial intelligence will be created and 50 higher education programmes will be developed. The number of graduates of higher education institutions in the field of AI will be increased sevenfold.

Last December it was reported that financing of the federal project on artificial intelligence will exceed 86 billion rubles.

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