Minister Kacır attended the TOBB Business World Artificial Intelligence Summit in Ankara, where representatives of the business world, technology ecosystem and public met. At the top; The transformation brought about by artificial intelligence in industry, production, trade, finance and service sectors was discussed through the concrete needs of the business world. TOBB President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, TOBB Software Council President Ertan Barut and guests took part in the program.
Minister Kacır said that artificial intelligence determines the direction of innovation, productivity and global competition today and said, “Companies all over the world are integrating artificial intelligence technologies into all rings of their value chains. They are taking steps to strengthen the data and technology infrastructure. Undoubtedly, we must take into account the problems and responsibilities brought by artificial intelligence technologies that draw the future horizon, as well as the opportunities offered by them. Artificial intelligence is part of our country’s development journey in the ‘Turkey Century’ on the basis of the principles of reliability, transparency, accountability, human-oriented and ethical responsibility.” “We are determined to make it a locomotive,” he said.
Transforming the potential offered by artificial intelligence into economic and social value; Stating that this will be possible with a qualified high-performance computing infrastructure, Kacır said, “We have put our high-performance computing cluster ARF into service to provide the processing power needed by our researchers, enterprises and industrialists in the processes of developing, training and scaling artificial intelligence models. We have enabled our artificial intelligence enterprises to benefit from EuroHPC supercomputers free of charge and have access to the processing capacity of MareNostrum 5, which is among the 20 most powerful supercomputers in the world. We have taken our country to the position it deserves in the world in high technology.” “With the HIT-30 Program, where we offer comprehensive support to large-scale and qualified investments that will carry
‘WE WILL OPEN OUR LANGUAGE MODEL TO DEVELOPERS’
Minister Kacır said that by opening the first use area for domestic and successful artificial intelligence solutions, public institutions will provide a strong reference for companies to develop, verify and move their products to global markets. Kacır said: “We will provide an environment where our SMEs and researchers can turn their ideas into prototypes in a short time with ‘Artificial Intelligence Growth Zones’ with ready-made energy and digital infrastructure. We will further advance the technological capacity of our country by mobilizing at least 10 billion dollars of resources under the leadership of the private sector in data center, cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructures. We will establish regulatory test areas in at least 5 priority sectors so that innovative solutions can be developed and tested safely; we will offer our entrepreneurs a predictable and innovation-supporting application ground. Undoubtedly, it is of great importance for our technological independence that artificial intelligence models reflect the memory of our society, the world of values and the richness of our language. In this regard, we will soon make our ‘Wise’ language model developed by TÜBİTAK available to developers, and we will grow our artificial intelligence ecosystem, which develops local and original solutions and scales them in global markets, in a holistic manner with qualified human resources, strong digital infrastructure, effective corporate coordination and sustainable financing. “Together, we will ensure that it benefits from economic value and versatile opportunities at the highest level.”
‘WE PROVIDE INTEREST-FREE FINANCING UP TO 5 MILLION LIRAS’
Minister Kacır emphasized that they will ensure that Türkiye benefits from the economic value and versatile opportunities offered by the artificial intelligence revolution at the highest level, and said, “Of course, the carriers of this vision in the field will be our innovative enterprises and SMEs that form the backbone of our economy. We will direct 150 million dollars of public resources to artificial intelligence-focused venture capital funds to increase the access of our artificial intelligence enterprises to capital. To provide equal opportunity to our SMEs in access to technology, to alleviate the financing burden created by high-cost digital infrastructures and to integrate artificial intelligence solutions into business processes.” “We have implemented the KOSGEB Artificial Intelligence Loan Program to support their rapid integration. Within the scope of the program, we provide interest-free financing of up to 5 million liras to our startups with the Teknogirişim badge for access to high-performance computing infrastructure, secure data storage services and artificial intelligence tools. We offer this opportunity with a maturity of 24 months, with a grace period of the first 12 months. I hereby invite all our startups that meet the conditions to benefit from this opportunity.”
