Firebird, a U.S.‐Armenian AI cloud company, has partnered with the Armenian government, NVIDIA, and telecom provider Team Group to establish a US$500 million AI supercomputing hub in Yerevan, Armenia.

Set to launch in 2026, the facility will start with thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and can scale beyond 100  MW. This marks the first large-scale “AI factory” in the South Caucasus, aiming to catalyze innovation across research, robotics, and academia through collaboration with leading universities. Team Group (which includes Telecom Armenia and Ireland’s Imagine Broadband) will supply critical connectivity infrastructure, while the Afeyan Foundation and Noubar Afeyan, co-founder of Flagship Pioneering, will join as founding investor and strategic advisor to Firebird. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan describes the project as a “major step” toward strengthening the nation’s tech industry and global partnerships, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it “AI factories are the infrastructure of the 21st century.”