Universities, scientific institutions, startups, and local administration advisors in Uzbekistan will reportedly gain free or discounted access to the artificial intelligence infrastructure managed by the Ministry of Digital Technologies. These support measures have been officially formalized through a government decree, requiring projects to successfully pass a competitive selection process. *Note: Independent verification of the long-term economic impact of this initiative is currently limited.*

Initiatives utilizing large language models are expected to receive complimentary application programming interface access for a period of up to six months. During each calendar month, developers will supposedly be able to process up to 10 million tokens, which serve as the fundamental text units for artificial intelligence operations.

Should a project require expanded resources, it will allegedly be permitted to utilize an additional 50 million tokens per month at a 50 percent discount. Program guidelines explicitly state that any unused token allocations will not carry over into subsequent months.

Furthermore, projects working with alternative artificial intelligence architectures can secure up to 120 gigabytes of video memory for six months to facilitate model training, testing, and evaluation. The selection committee will evaluate applications twice a year using a standardized scoring system.

In parallel, local authorities claim they intend to train one million young people annually in robotics, game development, and startup creation, though critics suggest the practical implementation of such ambitious targets remains to be seen.

Source: podrobno.uz