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The Innovation Promotion Foundation has launched new competitions in the field of artificial intelligence “START-AI” and “DEVELOPMENT-AI”. Within the framework of the national project “Digital Economy”, enterprises can win a grant of up to 4, 8 or 20 million rubles, depending on the stage of product development.
To participate in the competitions ” Start —Artificial Intelligence » and« Development —Artificial Intelligence » companies must develop projects on computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, intelligent decision support systems and promising methods of artificial intelligence.
“We have provided an opportunity for startups to implement developments in a shorter time, while increasing the grant amount: now for 2 years of project implementation under the Start-AI program, you can get a grant of up to 12 million rubles. At the same time, even a team that has not created its own company can apply online: registration of a legal entityit will be after the victory. A special feature of the competition is that the teams that have not worked enough on the project for a grant of 4 million rubles will be able to receive 800 thousand rubles for acceleration and development of competencies and come to the competition again after training, said Pavel Gudkov, Deputy General Director of the Innovation Promotion Fund. & mdash;For the competition „ Development-AI“ we are waiting for companies that have both development experience and successful sales of their own products. We are ready to provide financing for such projects up to 20 million rubles.
To receive 4 and 20 million rubles, participants need to attract their own funding in the amount of 30% of the grant amount.
“The projects that have scientific novelty have the greatest chances to receive a grant.” In this case, this means that a product or solution using artificial intelligence should perform tasks no worse than human natural intelligence. The second component of success is the commercial prospects of development, understanding of the client and the market. It is also important for us to see that the team declaring the project is able to implement it and bring the company to a new level, ” Pavel Gudkov noted.
Already this year, the Innovation Promotion Fund plans to support more than 100 projects for the development of products in the field of artificial intelligence. 800 million rubles will be allocated for this.
“The company will be able to use the funds received to expand the team, attract external experts, purchase data sets and rent cloud services. We hope that such support will allow us to create commercial solutions based on artificial intelligence faster. Together with the acceleration of projects and stimulating the development of open AI libraries, more than 7 billion rubles have been allocated for grants until 2024, ” he addedAlexey Sidoryuk, Director of Development, Director of the direction of “Artificial Intelligence” ANO “Digital Economy” .
You can apply for participation in the START-AI contest for up to 4 million rubles until August 23, up to 8 million rubles until September 6, and for the AI Development contest until September 20 of this year. Details — on the website https://fasie.ru/press/fund/ai/.
“I am sure that the launched contests will allow us to grow technological leaders in the field of artificial intelligence in a short time. By 2024, it is planned to support 569 small enterprises, 66 teams of developers of open libraries, 580 teams of developers in the field of artificial intelligence.the acceleration program. Artificial intelligence is a cross-cutting technology that in the future should cover all sectors of the economy, so we can say that AI startups are the foundation of the country’s technological development, ” said the deputy head of the Analytical Center under the government of the Russian Federation, the head of The Center of Expertise for the implementation of the federal project “Artificial Intelligence” Sergey Nakvasin.
Many enterprises have already received grants for the development of artificial intelligence and implemented their projects within the framework of other competitions of the Innovation Promotion Fund.
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“First of all, the program for the automatic analysis of radiographs of the spine facilitates the work of doctors and, through this, the life of patients. The main problem is that radiographs are still being evaluated “by eye”. Doctors evaluate the position and deformity of the spine from their own experience. The program automates this situation and eliminates the influence of the human factor. The system determines the contours of the vertebrae using a convolutional neural networkand calculates the angles of their deformation. Previously, if you gave the same X-ray to ten specialists, you could get ten different results. In our program, the conclusion is always the same. This allows you to make more accurate diagnoses and give the right treatment option. The program is already being used in several Russian private medical centers. Colleagues from Spain and America became interested in the project and began testing it, ” said the general director of the company “
In 2020, the IT company “Adeptik Plus” won the competition “Development of the national technology initiative” and received a grant of 15.5 million rubles. They were spent on the salaries of IT specialists, the purchase of equipment and the rental of office space.
“The IT system, which we presented as part of the competition and continue to develop, is an innovative system for industrial enterprises that allows you to plan production competently and efficiently. Imagine: the company has hundreds of machines, hundreds of people, tens of thousands of production operations; there are deadlines for the production of each order, there are resource constraints, there are priorities in orders, new urgent orders appear. At the same time, the equipment should not be idle, orders were made on time, production operations were carried out on timeoperations in accordance with the regulations. The human brain is not able to put together all this information and give out a production plan in which all the conditions are met. This is subject to modern mathematics, which uses artificial intelligence methods. This kind of modern mathematics is the basis of our IT solution. Its implementation will allow Russian industrial enterprises to effectively use resources and increase labor productivity, ” explainedSergey Gudyrin, General Director of Adeptic Plus LLC .
According to him, the development has already been implemented at the MAGMA machine-building plant in Ukraine. Currently, projects are underway at two more factories for the production of refrigeration equipment and electronics, and negotiations are underway with several more enterprises. The head of “Adeptic Plus” is not going to stop at this and is already planning to take part in new grant competitions. This time he wants to offer a software product for planning activities in service companies.