"BRICS+ AI Success Hub": a strong idea, a controversial deadline

The idea of the hub is strong: to collect proven AI cases from the BRICS+ countries, describe them in a single understandable language and simplify the repetition of successful solutions in other companies and regions. Ideally, this translates rare "pilots" into a normal "technical card".: what kind of data is needed, what kind of stack, what are the risks, and what is the effect in numbers — and under what conditions does it repeat?

But the timing is controversial. We are still in a phase of rapid evolution: projects are just coming into operation, metrics are "walking", models are being improved, data is being cleaned. In industry, the differences are particularly noticeable: two similar workshops, but the sensors, modes, and regulations are different. If you make a large showcase right now without "margin notes", it's easy to confuse the user with perfect stories that cannot yet be reproduced one-on-one.

At the same time, the initiative is important geopolitically. With its help, Russia is consolidating the BRICS countries around itself for joint technological development, including in the field of AI. This is a serious plus: a common space of trust, standards and the exchange of practices is being created. But reality and politics move at different speeds: beautiful declarations do not equal the readiness of data, infrastructure and teams. This should be honestly taken into account so that expectations match the possibilities.

So, the reasonable approach is as follows: now — individual implementations for specific processes (sewing according to the measure), in parallel — launching the platform as a living laboratory, not a museum of victories. Each case should have a version (what has changed), maturity status (hypothesis, pilot, operation), a short mandatory set of KPIs and a "map of conditions" under which the result is repeated. Plus— honest notes on "what didn't take off and why."

Over the next ten years, such a hub will truly turn into a scaling pipeline: standards will be established, "patterns" and compatible metrics will appear between the BRICS countries. But in 2025, it is more correct not to rush to "final conclusions", but to accumulate live experience and update it as projects mature.

Olga Chernokoz, political scientist, Chairman of the Board of the Association "Regions of the XXI Century", CEO of the IT media holding "Regions of Russia", member of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation for the Development of Information Technologies and the Digital Economy