Work is underway to establish a China-SCO-Belarus cooperation center for artificial intelligence applications, Belarusian Communications and Informatization Minister Kirill Zalessky said at the meeting of the expert advisory board under the Presidium of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus held at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, BelTA has learned.
“Already today, Belarus’ Communications and Informatization Ministry is working on the creation of a joint China-SCO-Belarus cooperation center for artificial intelligence applications, based on the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China and our ministry,” Kirill Zalessky said.
The minister remarked that a short while ago China proposed that Belarus join the founding group of the World AI Cooperation Organization and take part in drafting agreements related to the establishment and development of this organization.
“In September of this year, just three weeks ago, in partnership with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, we visited leading Chinese technology corporations that are developing large language models and building separate infrastructure frameworks for sectoral deployment,” the minister said.
According to him, work is now underway to create Belarus’ own computing resources. Currently available open‑source large language models will be used as a foundation.
“Our approach to the practical development of artificial intelligence is as follows: to focus on adapting existing solutions to specific national tasks, to ensure the safe use of models within a specially created secure infrastructure framework, to build a national data corpus and adapt a large language model to the national context, to expand additional training of engineering personnel to develop skills, and to ensure the prompt introduction of intelligent agents into state information systems and commercial services,” Kirill Zalessky stressed.
