Hankavan Armenia’s capital is about an hour drive from Jerevan and is known for its campground. Every summer, all types of programs attract students here. During the last week of August, more than 100 young people came for some: Learning of career paths in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A non -profit organization called Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology organized a camp as part of efforts to prepare young Armenian for technical jobs. On the last day of the program, Armenian technical professionals sat in circles with high school students across the country to share advice.
One of the day speakers, a researcher and software engineer, named Tigran Ishkhanian, stated that the new AI data center would be a boon for Armenia – and for the youth like students in the camp.
,[The] Hair said the Nvidia AI Factory would be a game changer, for Sura, they would need a lot of professionals and of course, first they will try to hire someone from Armenia.
Competitive advantage
NVIDIA has announced that it is partnered with a small US firebird and Armenia government to launch $ 500 million (426.5 million) next year, although the specific location of the Center is yet to be announced. It is ready to use thousands of microchips known as graphics processing units, or GPU.
The Ministry of High Technology of NVidia and Armenia rejected the interview requests, and the firebird did not respond.
Nvidia Vice President Rev Labradian recently predicted that “everyone” worldwide will eventually be a infrastructure for AI.
In a podcast, he compared technology to the arrival of electrical, given that it was limited to some places before it spread. But until the AI is universal likewise, the new data center will give Armenia a great competitive benefit, the Leboradian said.
“What we’re making with this supercomputer, this is not just another business,” said in June. “It is going to be a generator for basic research that will turn into companies that will become a big part of the economy and will turn Armenia into an important player in technology on the global platform.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidjzbgj0
The executive explained how the AI factory works, saying that the new feature will take to the ton of the data, NVDia would crunch rapidly using Blackwell GPUS, and excluded the so -called token condensing cracendine cranesing of all types of applications.
“The more tokens you can produce, the more efficient you make, the more value you make,” the Leboradian said.
AI winners and losers
Made in rich countries as expensive AI factories – with the United States, host the majority of the European Union and China search sites – a 2024 United nations report The growing contractor has expressed that the country with low resources wants to be left behind.
Vishal data centers have BEE research, billions of dollars and sparking competition to acquire GPU. Chips are notorious to consume large amounts of electricity and require large amounts of water to stay cold.
Experts have warned that AI growth can create a new digital division that fulfills the inequalities of colonialism.
The United Nations report compiled by the Aids of the United Nations General Secretary said, “The global economy is rapidly moving towards AI-operated production and innovation, leaving the risk of less developed countries, increasing economic and social division.”
NVIDIA plans make Armenia – who were about 3 million residents and are still re -having their recent wars with neighbor Azerbaijan – the only country in the region claiming the AI factory.
According to the Leboradian, the new feature will tap the surplus power supply from the country’s only nuclear power plant.
Local technical surge
The Leboradian San Francisco is located in the Gulf region, according to its LinkedIn Profile, as the head of the firebird. Armenia Credit Armenians preferred him to help creating the country’s technical sector in recent years.
Experts say that another factor behind Armenia’s tech boom is a simple requirement. The country is slightly smaller than Belgium and has some natural resources. Here more and more investors and teachers have been gymnastic for technology.
Armenia has more than 1,200 tech companies with at least three employees, and accordingly it was $ 2.3 billion in turnover last year. A recent study by Armenian Non -Group Boot Camps,
The figures cover the mixture of homegron businesses and local outposts of foreign firms, some of which allegedly moved from Russia to go around Western sanctions.
Some of the future activists at the AI factory of NVIDIA are out of the Affer school programs at the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Armenia.
On a recent visit to the huge headquarters of the tumor at Capital Yarvan, dozens of students were spread and the ether was self-study in a computer cluster or learning from trainers in classrooms. In a room, a 12-year-old was having a session about robotics with a 12-year-old veteran teacher and rolling a mini robot around a table.
Tumo Chief Development Officer, Pegor Papazian, told DW that he and other technical leaders in Armenia were involved in the conversation about the establishment of the new AI factory.
“We were invited by the Firebird Team that if we were available to us for educational, educational research objectives, we would pitch some ideas on how we would use free computing,” Heer said. “It seems that we will be able to benefit directly.”
Tumo has included a study of student behavior in proposed projects, which focuses on the ARA learning way for personnel, and a poor architecture in a study.
On the last day of the Hanakavan camp, the talks on AI career went on in the evening.
Wicktoria Melonan, a 16 -year -old who studies it, sounds high expectations to the new factory.
“It is very surprising that he discovered big money to build a server,” he told DW. “I think the investment from Nvidia to Armenia will be a great … to show the world that Armenia is not falling back, but we are catching and we are taking others further.”
Edited by: Uwe Hessler