en.Wedoany.com Reported - Selectel and ITMO University have jointly established a joint venture, which will develop a platform for creating, deploying, and operating multi-agent systems based on large language models. The CEO of the joint venture is Roman Venediktov, who has over 25 years of experience in the tech industry and previously headed Selectel's data center business. ITMO will be responsible for the technical aspects of the project, leveraging its research achievements in multi-agent systems, while Selectel will provide IT infrastructure and fund the company's development. The investment amount is 1 billion rubles.

The platform will help build AI systems tailored to customer business processes, connect them to enterprise data and systems, monitor work quality, and make adjustments as new tasks arise. The business model will consider actual consumption of computing resources and tokens, with customers paying for AI agent usage based on workload, scenario complexity, and the chosen deployment mode (Selectel infrastructure, dedicated environment, or on-premises).

Selectel CEO Oleg Lyubimov stated that enterprise interest in practical AI-based solutions continues to grow, but there remains a significant gap between demand and the speed of integrating such solutions. In response to this demand, the joint venture will create a system new to the Russian market, capable of autonomously designing AI agents for specific businesses such as logistics, finance, or production. The new organization will combine Selectel's expertise in building AI-specific infrastructure with the professional capabilities of the ITMO team, while operating as an independent entity to accelerate the development of application solutions needed for large enterprises in their transition to an AI agent economy.