On June 1, the artificial intelligence data center of the "Eleveight AI" company—an AI factory that is the first in the region and unique in the world—was officially launched in Gagarin. At the opening ceremony, which was also attended by the RA Minister of High-Tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, the state's strategic goal was announced: to transform Armenia from a consumer of technologies into a creator country and to establish a regional "garden of AI factories."

02.06.2026

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