Unified learning circuit: Sber and the Ministry of Education discussed the possibilities of AI for education

Sber and the Ministry of Education of Russia held a session in Moscow for regional teams “Artificial intelligence in education: a single educational circuit”. More than 100 participants from 20 regions tested AI tools and prepared proposals for implementation in schools and colleges. The outcome of the meeting was an agreement to create an AI model for general education.

The session was held at the largest campus of School 21 and brought together regional teams of Russian regions, experts and technology companies. Participants tested an AI assistant teacher and gained practical skills in using AI agents in the work of teachers and administration of schools and colleges.

Academic credibility, backed up by testing, is what we want to do in the feedback phase. It can only be given by you - teachers, teachers, administrators. It will depend on you how quickly our sovereign model will gain the necessary experience and adjust its parameters to ensure greater efficiency in education, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Such a large-scale industry discussion of AI with regional teams is being held for the first time, Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov emphasized. According to him, the neural network will complement the traditional school and the work of the teacher to improve the quality of training, develop a single educational space and educational work.

“We strive to ensure that every child, regardless of where they live, receives a quality education and is able to discover their talents. Another important area is the professional development of teachers under the program “Artificial intelligence in the work of the teacher”, more than 250 thousand teachers have already joined it, the Minister of Education noted. The work on the neural network, he added, involved the Ministry of digital resources, developers and teachers, whose contribution will be decisive in the methodology of development of AI.

Sber is developing the fundamental model of GigaChat and, together with the government, the Ministry of Education and the regions of the first in the world, creates a specialized AI model for school education, said German Gref, Chairman of the Board of the Bank. Existing information systems, he added, could be integrated with AI under strict cybersecurity requirements.

“It is critical that students and educators who prepare children for life in a very fast-changing technological world have a sovereign and secure AI solution that enables them to teach and learn even more effectively.” This will allow us to lay the fundamental foundation of the AI assistant teacher and ensure the effective and safe implementation of AI in the Russian education system, Gref said.

The education system should adapt to new technologies: interactive formats are important for modern children, said Alexey Morozov, a teacher of computer science at the gymnasium No. 12 in Tver, the winner of the all-Russian professional competition “Teacher of the Year of Russia” 2026.

With AI, a teacher will be able to create interesting tasks, tests, and even educational games for educational tasks that specific children in a particular classroom need. It is not necessary to have programming for this. It is important to show that artificial intelligence is an accessible and understandable assistant that opens up new opportunities for teaching. Over time, in his opinion, AI will become a full-fledged assistant not only for teachers, but also for students and parents.

The meeting ended with the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and Sber on cooperation in creating an AI model for general education. The document in the presence of Dmitry Chernyshenko was signed by Sergey Kravtsov and German Gref.