NVIDIA: Armenia and Kazakhstan building domestic AI infrastructure with Firebird on NVIDIA DSX platform

Published Sunday, August 9, 2026 · 12:21 AM EDT

NVIDIA said Friday that Armenia and Kazakhstan are building domestic artificial intelligence infrastructure with Firebird Cloud AI using the NVIDIA DSX platform. The company posted the announcement on X and shared a video featuring CEO Jensen Huang discussing the milestone for the Commonwealth of Independent States region. The post did not disclose financial terms or specific deployment timelines for the projects. NVIDIA characterized the effort as an important step for the CIS region to create intelligence locally. Firebird Cloud AI was tagged as the partner working with the two countries on the infrastructure build-out. The announcement linked to a video of Huang commenting on the development.

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