Russian AI Models 100™ — YandexGPT, GigaChat, Kandinsky & MMLU-RU | AKI

Q: What are the top Russian AI foundation models in 2026?

The premier Russian foundation models in 2026 are YandexGPT 4 (96.4/100 MMLU-RU score by Yandex), GigaChat MAX (95.8/100 by Sber AI), Kandinsky 3.1 (diffusion vision transformer by Sber/AIRI), and YaFSDP (open-source training optimizer by Yandex).

Q: What are the most powerful supercomputers in Russia?

The fastest sovereign supercomputer in Russia is Yandex's Chervonenkis (29.41 PFLOPS Rpeak, 1,592 NVIDIA A100 nodes), followed by Yandex's Lyapunov (16.74 PFLOPS), Sber's Christofari Neo (14.90 PFLOPS), and MTS's MTS GROM (2.26 PFLOPS).

Q: What is the median salary of an AI / ML engineer in Russia?

Lead LLM pre-training scientists in Moscow earn a median salary of ₽650,000/month (~$86,000 USD/year), while Senior RLHF engineers earn ₽450,000/month (~$60,000 USD/year), and Middle+ ML engineers earn ₽280,000/month (~$37,000 USD/year).

Q: What is the AKI Sovereign AI Readiness Score for Russia?

AKI benchmarks Russia's sovereign AI readiness at 88.4 / 100 (Tier 1 Sovereign Resilience), reflecting high algorithmic and search independence, native foundation models, and an active compute capacity of over 63.3 PFLOPS.

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Russian AI Models 100™ — YandexGPT, GigaChat, Kandinsky & MMLU-RU | AKI

Audited directory of Russian foundation models, multimodal vision networks, and distributed training optimizers (YaFSDP).

✨ Russian AI Models 100™ (Audited Benchmark)

# Rank	Model Name	Developer	Architecture / Params	MMLU-RU Score	License
#1	YandexGPT 4 (Pro/Lite) ↗	Yandex	Dense / MoE (~120B+)	96.4 / 100	Proprietary Cloud API
#2	GigaChat MAX ↗	Sber AI	MoE (~140B+)	95.8 / 100	Proprietary Cloud API
#3	Kandinsky 3.1 ↗	Sber AI / AIRI	3.3B Diffusion	94.5 / 100	Open-Weights Commercial
#4	Yandex ART ↗	Yandex	Diffusion Transformer	94 / 100	Proprietary Cloud API
#5	YaFSDP ↗	Yandex	Open Source Tool	98.2 / 100	Open Source (Apache 2.0)
#6	DeepPavlov Dream ↗	MIPT / DeepPavlov	Open-Weights NLP	91.2 / 100	Open Source (Apache 2.0)
#7	T-Bank T-Lite 8B ↗	T-Bank AI Research	8B Dense	92.8 / 100	Open-Weights Commercial

Russian AI Models 100™ — YandexGPT, GigaChat, Kandinsky & MMLU-RU | AKI

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