MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said

on Wednesday that Russia would develop artificial intelligence

with BRICS partners and other countries, a bid to challenge the

dominance of the United States in one of the most disruptive

technologies of the 21st Century.

"I am confident that the international alliance of national

associations and development institutes in the field of AI of

BRICS countries and other interested states will give a

significant boost to such cooperation," Putin told an AI

conference in Moscow.

"We will launch this alliance today," he said.

Russia's largest lender Sberbank said that the new AI

Alliance Network would include national AI associations from

China, ranked as one of the world's top two AI powers, along

with Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa, in a partnership.