en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Russian government has completed revisions to its artificial intelligence regulatory bill. The new version no longer covers the entire AI market, instead focusing on large foundation models with over 10 billion parameters. The document has been reduced from 21 to 13 articles and renamed the "Bill on Supporting the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technologies."

The new draft removes several controversial provisions, including the concept of "cross-border artificial intelligence technologies," mandatory labeling requirements for all content generated by neural networks, and regulations on support measures for data centers. In the area of copyright, the new version requires informing users about the ownership of rights to model outputs and the conditions for obtaining them. The draft also deletes clauses requiring training exclusively on Russian source data and stipulating that models must be created by Russian citizens.

The revised draft introduces two new categories: sovereign models and national large foundation models. Both types must be developed by Russian legal entities, store and process data within Russia, and comply with Russian laws and spiritual-moral values. Sovereign models require full development within Russia, while national models may use foreign components, including open-source ones.

The previous draft version faced criticism from the business community. Several companies and institutions warned that strict regulation could increase AI application costs by 20% to 40% and delay product time-to-market by 1.5 to 2 times. In the new version, the controversial requirements regarding training data sources and creator nationality have been removed.

The government plans to submit the bill to the State Duma (Госдума) by the end of June. If the document is passed during the current session, the main provisions may take effect on March 1, 2027, with some regulations coming into force on September 1, 2026. For already deployed models that meet the conditions for storing and processing data within Russia, a transition period until September 1, 2032, may apply.

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