Minister of High-Tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan studies:
“These days, I’m in Washington as half of an official delegation led by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan.
As half of the go to, I not too long ago met at the White House with my colleague, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Principal Advisor to the US President on Science and Technology Michael Kratsios, White House Senior Advisor on Artificial Intelligence Sriram Krishnan, OSTP Senior Advisor on AI and Technology Dean Ball, and Jonathan Askonas, Representative of the Policy Planning Division of the US Department of State.
During the assembly, Michael Kratsios introduced the US authorities’s motion plan and strategic objectives in the area of science and technology. I, individually, introduced Armenia’s applications and priorities in semiconductor design, synthetic intelligence, and analysis, together with state improvement applications, the creation of the AI Virtual Institute, in addition to the format of state assist inside the framework of the roughly $500 million funding program in Armenia by FirebirdAI in partnership with NVIDIA, which, by the manner, has already utilized for an export allow for the related infrastructure for the AI knowledge middle. I additionally proposed contemplating the risk of introducing a mechanism to facilitate export permits in such circumstances, which we are going to focus on in a bilateral format shortly.
In parallel with the points talked about above, points associated to enabling the entry of new giant American technology companies and services into Armenia had been additionally addressed.