Armenia Aims to Become an AI Superpower: $4 Billion Investment and 50,000 GPUs to Be Imported

The American company Firebird and the U.S. government have announced the launch of the second phase of a large-scale project to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure in Armenia. The total investment is estimated at $4 billion, and the project itself, according to the parties involved, should put the country in the top 5 largest AI clusters in the world in terms of per capita. The start of the new phase was announced on February 10 during an official visit to Yerevan by U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance.

A key element will be the deployment of 50,000 graphics processors in Armenia by the end of 2026. The expansion became possible after American regulators approved the export of another 41,000 NVIDIA GB300 chips of the latest generation. The project has already been called the largest technology investment in the country's history. According to Nikol Pashinyan, a full-fledged "AI factory" and a modern data center are being formed in Armenia, which have become a practical continuation of the Armenian-American memorandum on semiconductors.

Firebird notes that the new cluster is turning Armenia into a global hub for supercomputing power. The second phase follows the first, estimated at $500 million, and lays the foundation for the development of biotechnology, robotics, and space research. Experts emphasize that the U.S. permission to export such chips demonstrates a high level of confidence in the project and could have a long-term transformative effect on the country's economy.