AI Nodus: Ukraine - Week of November 4, 2025
AI Nodus: Ukraine is a bi-weekly report tracking AI developments across Ukraine's government, defense, and technology sectors.
Key Developments:
OSIRIS AI secures foreign investment for autonomous drone operating system
Jooble's Fitly AI resume service generates 7% of monthly revenue in first month
Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman, launches four-product AI suite with 1,500 employees
Ministry announces Diia.AIContest hackathon with EPAM Ukraine offering $8,000 grants
Diia AI support system processes over 500,000 dialogues, handles 85% of queries autonomously
Sense Bank integrates AI assistant with voice capabilities across 50 languages
Russia deploys LLM grooming tactics to manipulate AI training data
Ukrainian researchers release Lapa LLM v0.1.2 open-source language model
BUSINESS & INVESTMENT
OSIRIS AI Receives Foreign Investment for Autonomous Drone Operating System
Ukrainian startup OSIRIS AI secured undisclosed investment from a foreign partner to develop OSIRIS DroneOS, a modular operating system enabling autonomous drone operations through real-time data processing without continuous operator intervention. Built on Embedded Linux, the platform supports hardware ranging from STM32 to NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi CM4, features 256-bit communication encryption, proprietary App Store, cloud mission analytics, and compatibility with PX4 and MAVLink protocols. The company positions itself as building a unified UAV and C-UAV ecosystem connecting AI developers, microelectronics manufacturers, and users in a global collaboration network comparable to Android's mobile unification.
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Jooble's AI Resume Service Fitly Generates 7% of Monthly Revenue Target in Launch Month
Ukrainian job search platform Jooble launched Fitly in early September across 38 countries, an AI-powered resume optimization service that generated hundreds of thousands of users and delivered 7% of planned monthly revenue in its first month despite low candidate willingness to pay for AI tools. The service uses AI to match relevant vacancies, optimize CVs with keywords, create personalized cover letters, and calculate position match scores addressing the problem that only 8% of resumes receive employer responses while 75% remain unopened. Market analysts note increasing competition from US-based resume optimization services Jobscan and Teal, which have raised millions in venture funding.
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Grammarly Rebrands as Superhuman, Launches Four-Product AI Productivity Suite
Grammarly announced corporate rebranding to Superhuman and launched Superhuman Suite comprising four products: Grammarly text checker, Coda workspace, Superhuman Mail client, and new assistant Superhuman Go integrating with over 100 services. Co-founder Oleksiy Shevchenko stated the company employs nearly 1,500 specialists globally with continued support for the Ukrainian team and Kyiv hub, which currently comprises 140 employees following Superhuman acquisition adding approximately 100 staff. The company grew headcount over 16% in the past year excluding summer interns, maintains hubs in Kyiv, Warsaw, Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Vancouver, and partners with Superhumans military trauma center for veteran prosthetics.
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GOVERNMENT & DIGITAL SERVICES
Ministry Launches Diia.AIContest Hackathon With EPAM Ukraine Offering $8,000 Grants
The Ministry of Digital Transformation partnered with EPAM Ukraine and WINWIN AI Center of Excellence to organize Diia.AIContest, Ukraine's first government AI hackathon running November 14-23 online with Demo Day November 29 in Kyiv, offering grants up to $8,000 and mentorship from EPAM experts. Participants will develop AI solutions across three tracks: smart assistants for government services, business automation tools for sole proprietors including reporting and legal support, and operational optimization for document analysis and data verification. Ten teams with strongest developments will present on Demo Day with winning solutions integrated into Diia app used by millions of Ukrainians, with registration open through November 12.
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Diia AI Support System Processes 500,000+ Dialogues, Handles 85% Autonomously
First Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov reported that Diia's AI support consultant conducted over 500,000 dialogues with users and autonomously processed 85% of citizen inquiries, leaving only complex cases for human operators. The AI assistant launched in June 2025, processing 198,164 of 251,627 requests in July with 27,800 closed without operator involvement, now operates 24/7 and independently responded in 350,000+ dialogues. Fedorov stated the "operators busy" scenario decreased from 5-7% to less than 0.01%, with operators handling only 10-15% of unique complex inquiries representing a 79% workload reduction to 17,000 unique dialogues.
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Sense Bank Deploys AI Assistant With Multilingual Voice Capabilities
Sense Bank integrated artificial intelligence into its knowledge base platform, enabling voice interaction across 50 languages where users can submit queries by voice and receive audio responses in their query language. The AI analyzes requests, locates relevant materials in the knowledge base, processes information, and provides consolidated answers eliminating manual article searches, while automatically generating reports identifying articles requiring updates and creating text and video materials to populate the knowledge base. The system processes customer inquiries through natural language understanding and delivers precise explanations directly rather than providing article links for self-service navigation.
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THREAT INTELLIGENCE
Russia Deploys LLM Grooming Tactics to Manipulate AI Training Data
Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation reports Russia launched targeted operations to influence large language models through "LLM grooming" tactics, mass-populating the internet with fake materials to infiltrate machine learning systems. British analytical center Institute for Strategic Dialogue warns the Kremlin's strategy causes AI algorithms to reproduce Kremlin messages, creating a new information warfare format through technological infrastructure manipulation rather than social media or fake news. The Center emphasizes this creates fundamentally new threats for democratic societies by undermining information sovereignty, with AI algorithms capable of spreading Kremlin messages at scale and speed unattainable by traditional media, turning every chatbot or search query into a hidden influence channel.
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Ukrainian Researchers Release Lapa LLM v0.1.2 Open-Source Language Model
Ukrainian Catholic University, KPI, Lviv Polytechnic, and AGH University Krakow researchers released Lapa LLM v0.1.2, an open-source large language model adapted from Gemma-3-12B architecture with completely rewritten tokenizer for Ukrainian language processing. The model replaced 80,000 of 250,000 tokens optimizing Ukrainian text processing to require 1.5x fewer tokens than original Gemma, achieving 33 BLEU on FLORES English-Ukrainian translation and reaching performance approaching current Ukrainian LLM leader MamayLM with version 1.0 planned to surpass it. Development supported by Comand.AI, ELEKS (through Oleksiy Skrypnyk memorial grant), and HuggingFace corporate subscription, with five of 25 training datasets and partial training code published at project launch, remainder promised within one week.