I Journey 2025, held in Moscow on Nov. 21, marked a momentous occasion as the international conference took the opportunity to welcome new members into the AI Alliance Network.
Founded during last December’s AI Journey in Moscow, the network inducted as members 11 new associations and research institutions from 11 countries spanning Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. As a result, the AI Alliance Network now comprises 28 organizations from 21 countries.
The 2025 conference also served as a platform for multinational participants to summarize the year’s results, looking back on what has been achieved as they look forward to what 2026 will bring. The seventh edition of the annual conference saw 21 strategic sessions and 32 in-depth interviews with leading AI experts, held on the sidelines of major technology and business events in Russia and other countries.
“This year, we conducted an international foresight study to jointly shape a vision for the future of artificial intelligence. I would like to congratulate Russia as the initiating country of this ambitious initiative that has brought the international community together. The AI Alliance Network has become an excellent platform for uniting AI researchers under the auspices of collaborative scientific cooperation,” said Dr. Ajith Abraham, vice chancellor at India’s Sai University, a new member of the network.
The AI Alliance Network was created with the aim to serve as a base for collaborative work in various directions. One of the projects was AI Horizons, a large-scale scientific research project that was introduced at last year’s conference.
To follow-up progress in AI Horizons, leading researchers in the field from Russia, China, India, Serbia and Vietnam presented the final report of their international foresight research on fundamental and exploratory studies for the future development of AI, now available to specialists worldwide in Russian, English and Chinese.
The final report involved the work of over 270 scientists from 36 countries, including Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
The project also marked the first time in the history of Russian science that a model deeply integrating the global scientific community was implemented in a large-scale, fundamental AI research project.
“The AI Horizons project unveils the future of the technology. To date, numerous scenarios for the development of artificial intelligence have been presented. However, the overwhelming majority of them are developed by individual research institutes, associations or countries,” said Alexander Vedyakhin, chairman of the supervisory board of AI Alliance Russia.
“The dominant influence on global technology forecasting has always been exerted by the academic communities of Western countries, which leaves other countries far behind in shaping the future agenda. But AI Horizons has managed to change this global trend. This is not just a forecast; it is a statement: Science knows no borders and the future of AI must be shaped jointly, with respect for the diversity of knowledge, cultures and values,” he said.
Along with the AI Horizons report, this year’s AI Journey conference signaled the need for global collaboration, urging experts to highlight the importance of working together to shape the future of AI while the AI Alliance Network looks forward to future collaborations that transcend borders.
