Together, the partners will develop an independent enterprise that will be designing a product platform for the development, implementation, and industrial operation of LLM-based multiagent systems. The developed platform will make it possible to quickly assemble applied AI models for customers’ specific business processes, connect these models to corporate data and systems, evaluate their performance, and safely develop them as business processes change. The commercial model will account for the actual consumption of computational resources and tokens, as clients will pay for the use of AI agents (software capable of independently tackling complex business processes in various fields) based on the workload, complexity of application scenarios, and chosen server: Selectel infrastructure, exclusive contour, or at a client’s premises.
“These days, businesses around the world are focusing on developing various AI agents that can take on a specific number of tasks. However, the more such agents there are, the harder it is to maintain and use them, especially if you are trying to make them work on complex tasks together. Based on this, we at the Research Center ‘Strong AI in Industry’ have suggested a new concept for automating the design and operation of multiagent AI systems based on fundamental models that we implemented in the form of a framework,” says Alexander Boukhanovsky, the head of ITMO’s Institute of AI.
The team of the new enterprise will include a project group from ITMO and experienced industry experts, with Roman Venediktov, an expert with over 25 years of experience in technological management, including as head of data centers at Selectel, appointed as CEO. ITMO will act as a key competency center and provide groundwork for the future platform for industrial development of multiagent solutions. Selectel, in its turn, will ensure financial investments into the project, as well as all the necessary IT infrastructure for its implementation.
“There is a growing interest in implementing AI-based practical solutions. However, there is still a great divide between the actual speed of integrating these solutions and the demand for them. In response to this demand, we are launching a joint enterprise that will create a brand new system for the Russian market, capable of independently designing AI agents for the tasks of a specific business, be that logistics, finance, or production. This new venture will bring together Selectel’s expertise in building specialized AI infrastructure with the competencies of ITMO’s team, while at the same time being an independent actor. This will accelerate the development of applied solutions that are in demand by major businesses in line with the transition to the AI agent economy,” comments Oleg Lyubimov, the CEO of Selectel.
Since 2020, Selectel has invested over 3.5 billion rubles in AI development. In the next five years, the company is planning to increase the volume of investments and allocate another 10 billion rubles for the development of high-power IT infrastructure and specialized solutions for AI projects, including high-powered GPU, an AI marketplace for data processing and analysis software, as well as an AI platform for model training and inference.
