Ukraine Partners with Nvidia to Develop Sovereign AI

Ukraine partners with Nvidia to develop sovereign AI infrastructure.

The Ukrainian government has embarked on a joint initiative with Nvidia to develop a sovereign artificial intelligence. This was announced by Mykhailo Fedorov, the Minister of Digital Transformation.

“We are starting to work with Nvidia, a global leader in computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence. We have already launched the AI Factory project, which will bring a powerful state AI infrastructure from Nvidia to Ukraine. […] This is a matter of national security and data protection,” he said.

Fedorov added that the state will gain access to the world’s best technologies and will be able to create a sustainable and independent AI infrastructure for the public and defense sectors.

The key areas of the initiative include:

• support in creating a national technical environment based on Nvidia solutions;
• talent and education development;
• joint R&D projects;
• support for the startup ecosystem.

The first joint project is Diia AI LLM.

“This is a sovereign language model trained on Ukrainian data, legislation, and public services,” Fedorov noted.

All AI solutions in the Diia ecosystem will be based on this neural network—from the assistant on the portal to the future voice assistant in the application.

“Collaboration with NVIDIA is an important step towards an agent state that acts proactively and uses artificial intelligence for solutions that help people,” the official concluded.

In September, Ukraine launched the “world’s first” state AI agent on the Diia portal. It not only answers questions but also provides services directly in the chat.

In June, the Ministry of Digital Transformation introduced a sandbox for testing blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies.