In 2025, the costs of business and government agencies in Bashkiria to implement artificial intelligence increased by 45.6% compared to the previous year, reaching 141.5 million rubles, writes RBC. In Russia as a whole, corporate spending on AI technologies increased by 95% and amounted to 176.1 billion rubles. Most of the investments fell on Moscow (161.8 billion rubles), and in the context of the industry, the leaders in cost growth were financial and insurance companies, which invested 90.7 billion rubles in this direction.