27 February 12:43
Vladimir Potanin, President of Interros and Norilsk Nickel, whose main assets are located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, gave interview Forbes magazine, in which talked aboutb investments in modern technologies.
Vladimir Potanin noted that the idea of investing money in startups first appeared back in 2000.
“I then for the first time I thought about what is happening in our country There are powerful, serious teams of mathematicians and business-minded programmers capable of creating companies that will be noticeable or will dominate not only here, but also abroad. Therefore, I became stronger in the idea that we must continue to search,” said the president of the company.
Now “Norilsk Nickel” moves away from the image of an exclusively raw materials company, becoming more technologically advancedth.
“This requires the use of artificial intelligence in our activities. And it is used, the extraction of metals during enrichment improves, the performance of mining equipment during ore extraction improves, and the parameters of metallurgical production improve,” Vladimir Potanin said in an earlier interview.
At the moment the company becameA a “testing ground” for searching and implementing promising ideas, which will make it possible to implement import substitution and increase the technological sovereignty of the country. If previously Norilsk Nickel used in its work the best examples of equipment and software available in the world, now the company is actively attracting partners in Russia and friendly countries.
Vladimir Potanin describes the current situation as follows: “The market has become free, it is still not completely filled with the goods and services it needs, including due to the departure of Western firms and so on. So from a tactical point of view, anything that fills a gap in goods and services is good. The trend, I think, is not very short-term, if only because we have inflation, labor shortages, and so on. And these are all factors that indicate that we have a unique situation: not a financial crisis or a crisis of overproduction, on the contrary, we have a kind of deficit, and we can try to make up for it.”
The head of Norilsk Nickel notes that many of the technologies being introduced very capital intensive. They can only pay off fully if they enter the market outside of Russia. This will also work for state task of obtaining sovereignty.
The key to success here is the successful use of new technologies in your own projects. Today, Norilsk Nickel is introducing technological innovations from the Axiom predictive emission control system to its own MetalGPT AI agent for metallurgists. The first economic effect from the introduction of artificial intelligence in production is already there – about 10 billion rubles.
