{"name":"Applied AI in Georgia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Georgia, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/georgia","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Georgia","slug":"georgia","iso2":"GE","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":8,"deployments":6,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":1,"industries":4,"countries":1,"linked":8},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Georgia","role":"Clinicians and hospital staff","org":"MediMind","text":"MediMind now runs an AI-native hospital information system across 25 hospitals in the Republic of Georgia, part of a growing wave of AI in hospital management built on the FHIR R4 data standard with Medplum. Workflows span admission to discharge, with roughly 1.1 million patient records, 3.1 million visits and 3.7 million clinical observations already logged. Algorithms flag preliminary findings and decision-support alerts, but this machine-assisted clinical documentation stays labelled as AI-generated, never folded into a clinician's final conclusions.","date":"2026-08-06","source":"https://www.medplum.com/blog/medimind-case-study"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Georgia","org":"Business Association of Georgia","text":"BAG's survey of 600-plus Georgian firms puts AI adoption in Georgian business at 84%, spanning firms researching, piloting or running the technology. 13% report full integration, 24% are piloting, and 47% are still planning. Marketing and content generation led use cases at 20%, with finance and customer support each at 15%; fieldwork ran 9-25 June 2026, reflecting artificial intelligence use among Georgian companies.","date":"2026-07-20","source":"https://ai-news.ge/en/article/bag-survey-84-percent-georgian-companies-adopting-ai"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Georgia","role":"Central bank analysts and supervisors","org":"National Bank of Georgia","text":"The National Bank of Georgia's NBG AI Platform, an AI in central banking project, is a Top 12 finalist in the 2026 Qorus-Infosys Finacle Banking Innovation Awards (AI-led Value Creation). Built in-house without external vendors, this central bank AI gives employees AI agents plus specialised chatbots for analytical and supervisory work.","date":"2026-06-10","source":"https://www.qorusglobal.com/innovations/31375-nbg-ai-platform-a-central-banks-in-house-ai-ecosystem"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Georgia","role":"Data analysts and banking staff","org":"TBC Bank","text":"TBC Bank, Georgia's largest bank, gives 600 employees direct access to company data through Genie, an AI-powered data analytics tool built on Databricks, returning answers in seconds instead of via disconnected on-premises SQL servers. Work once taking a month now moves far faster, reports shrank from 14 weeks to two days, and the analyst team fell by 50%. Most headquarters staff are expected to use this AI in banking tool daily.","date":"2026-06-09","source":"https://www.contextwindows.ai/case-study/tbc-bank-business-analytics"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Georgia","role":"Tax accountants and finance officers","org":"Georgia Revenue Service","text":"Georgia's Revenue Service uses AI VAT refund automation to return over GEL 1 billion to the economy yearly. A risk-scoring system checks payment history, supplier invoices and sector benchmarks against each monthly filing; if nothing flags, funds reach the firm's account within five to seven working days. This tax refund automation skips manual review for low-risk cases, though flagged filings face further scrutiny.","date":"2026-04-17","source":"https://www.ggi.com/news/indirect-taxes/the-strategic-advantage-of-georgias-automated-vat-refunds"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Georgia","role":"Customer service advisor","org":"TBC Bank","text":"TBC Bank debuts Georgia's first generative AI banking chatbot, built in-house. The assistant parses customer questions and gives thorough financial guidance, with skills set to grow through ongoing learning. Live now on the lender's website, the AI virtual assistant for banking should later reach every TBC digital channel.","date":"2025-09-01","source":"https://georgiatoday.ge/88356-2/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Georgia","role":"SME lending officer","org":"Bank of Georgia","text":"Georgia's Bank of Georgia has rolled out Smart Loan, billed as the region's first AI-powered SME loan for small and medium enterprises. Approval takes under two minutes, with the system generating tailored financing offers automatically rather than through manual underwriting. The bank presents this as a shift in how business borrowers in the country obtain rapid access to credit through AI in SME lending.","date":"2025-06-11","source":"https://www.qorusglobal.com/index.php/innovations/30224-smart-loan-e2e-digital"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Georgia","org":"National Bank of Georgia","text":"Georgia's central bank has opened its Regulatory Laboratory to fintech firms testing AI in banking, letting companies trial new tools under supervision before wider rollout. The National Bank of Georgia's sandbox for AI-driven financial technology lets advanced systems enter the sector safely, replacing unsupervised deployment. Applications close October 2025.","date":"2025-06-09","source":"https://nbg.gov.ge/en/media/news/the-national-bank-of-georgia-launches-a-pilot-project-for-an-a-i-sandbox-within-its-regul"}]}