Russia plans to integrate its own-built Artificial Intelligence model Gigachat into the computing systems on the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said today.

The Gigachat, developed by the country’s largest bank Sberbank, is one of two flagship large language models (LLM) of Russia, which is trying to catch up with the United States and China in the global race for artificial intelligence.

Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov said the next mission to the International Space Station, due in the autumn, will carry everything needed to run the model. Gigachat will help the crew process satellite images, increasing the maximum resolution from one meter per pixel (pixel) to 0.5 meters.

“This is an immediate help for cosmonauts,” Bakanov said, speaking at a technology conference in Moscow.

In April, a Russian spacecraft carried US astronaut Jonathan Kim and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Rizhnikov and Alexei Zubrytsky to the International Space Station. The next Russian space mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for 27 November.

Russia has announced that it will participate in the ISS until 2028 and plans to launch the first two units of its own new space station in 2027.

Sberbank is focused on developing AI agents , i.e. creative AI systems designed to process information, make decisions and take actions without direct and continuous human input.