Armenian government signs cooperation deal with Eleveight AI

Eleveight AI and the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia have launched cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence, with an MoU signed in Gagarin, Gegharkunik Province, where the next-generation AI technology and infrastructure center, powered by NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD systems, was opened.

At a press conference, Minister of High-Tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan said that the conceptual approach of the Armenian government is that the country should soon become an AI hub, or, as he described it, a “garden of AI factories,” and that it should transform from a user and consumer of technology into a producer, creator, developer, and exporter of technology.

“In the near future, together with Eleveight AI, we will hold discussions in very specific areas with various government agencies, as well as different stakeholders in the technology community, to understand how we can direct part of those resources toward meeting specific needs here in Armenia,” Minister Hayrapetyan said.

The minister noted that the state also seeks to contribute to the development of the artificial intelligence sector and to encourage innovators, startups, individual researchers, and research groups to engage in artificial intelligence technologies.

“Eleveight AI should not only export computing resources; it should also offer cloud services to domestic players who need such computational capacity and, to our delight and that of the state, this need is growing day by day,” he said. “This means the company must cooperate with the government to identify strategic points where collaboration can take place, both with the public sector and with actors in the technology community,” he added.

He further noted that, to implement this concept, the state has established a Virtual Artificial Intelligence Institute, which serves as a channel for aggregating computing resources and distributing them in the form of industry subsidies.

Eleveight AI founder and CEO Arman Aleksanyan emphasized the importance of having viable text-to-speech and speech-to-text models in Armenian.

“Since everything is developing and changing very quickly, we need some kind of conceptual framework so that we can plan the directions of cooperation,” he said.

The launch of Eleveight AI is seen as an important step for Armenia’s technology sector, positioning the country as a regional hub for AI infrastructure.