IT companies of Tatarstan can take part in the Development-AI competition
Applications are now being accepted for the "Development-AI" competition. It offers small enterprises from Tatarstan the opportunity to receive grants of up to 30 million roubles for developing new IT products based on artificial intelligence. Applications are accepted until 10:00 AM on July 20, 2026.
The competition includes several focus areas for project creation:
Computer vision
Speech recognition and synthesis
Intelligent decision support systems
Advanced AI methods for automating intellectual and physical activity
Foundational language and multimodal artificial intelligence models for applied tasks
To participate in the competition, a company must have the status of "micro-enterprise" or "small enterprise," be registered no more than 7 years ago and have between 2 and 20 employees. Enterprises with the status of "Small Technology Company" will receive an additional 2 points during application review.
After receiving the grant, participants should develop a product sample, test it and file applications for registration of intellectual property results.
For more details on the competition terms, visit the website or view the presentation.
The organizer is the Innovation Assistance Fund with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia. The competition is implemented under the federal project "Domestic Solutions" (one of the key directions of the national project "Data Economy").