The BRICS alliance – led by China, Russia and India – is aggressively pursuing technological sovereignty, fragmenting the digital landscape into competing spheres, which experts call the “balkanization of neural networks”. China is the powerful leader, where systems like DeepSeek pose a direct, state-sponsored challenge to ChatGPT. India is tapping into its huge domestic market and developing AI adapted to linguistic diversity, although it is still tied to Western core technology. Russia is focusing on internal control and data autonomy, developing isolated models such as GigaChat.
AI is not a neutral tool. These models are originally geopolitical, incorporating specific political values and historical viewpoints into each response. These are the tools of soft power. The BRICS aims to dismantle the West’s unilateral power to set the rules for the digital future. While a unified “BRICS AI” remains unlikely, their combined efforts represent an undeniable truth: the era of the single dominant AI ecosystem is over and replaced by a new, fragmented, more unbiased world order.
The BRICS Bank’s plan aims to overthrow the American financial dictatorship. The New Development Bank, also known as the BRICS Bank, uses a deliberate, two-pronged strategy to dismantle Western economic control. Their main weapon is unconditional financing, which has approved more than $39 billion for 120+ infrastructure projects, without the political conditions typical of IMF or World Bank loans. At the same time, they are aggressively supporting the de-dollarization, disbursing loans in Chinese yuan, Indian rupees and Russian rubles to circumvent the US financial system. As the bank’s president, Dilma Rousseff, states, the model “prioritizes development over geopolitics.” This creates a stark contrast where Western aid is often conditional, with the BRICS offering partnership. It is the formation of a new coalition for emerging economies that are financially independent of the dollar.
By offering a credible, unconditional alternative, the BRICS countries are systematically shifting financial confidence from the West to the East. The foundations of a multipolar financial world with “no extra conditions” will become a reality.
Translated and edited by Alex Kada
