{"name":"Applied AI in Lithuania — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Lithuania, 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/lithuania","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":"Lithuania","slug":"lithuania","iso2":"LT","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":12,"deployments":6,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":4,"industries":7,"countries":1,"linked":12},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Lithuania","org":"Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of Lithuania","text":"Organisations in Lithuania lead the European Union on agentic AI adoption, the Economy and Innovation Ministry reported from new OpenAI research. AI agents produce 85% of activity on OpenAI's enterprise tools among local users. Ministry economist Titas Budreika said the share of firms using AI tools grew 2.5 times in a year.","date":"2026-10-15","source":"https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3083413/lithuania-leads-eu-in-use-of-agentic-ai-in-organisations"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lithuania","org":"Seimas of Lithuania","text":"The Seimas backed Social Democrat MP Birutė Vėsaitė's amendments to the Law on Public Information 51–5, with 11 abstaining, advancing Lithuania AI regulation. Sharing material made or reworked with AI tools that misrepresents real people's identity, words or deeds would be banned. These AI content rules go to the Culture Committee, then plenary on 10 December.","date":"2026-10-08","source":"https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/mokslas-ir-it/11/3076365/seimas-svarstys-di-technologijomis-piktnaudziauti-neleisiancias-istatymo-pataisas"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Lithuania","org":"Tele2 Lithuania","text":"Tele2 research shows 6 in 10 Lithuanian respondents use AI, almost one-third of them daily. Personal tasks dominate consumer AI use at over 8 in 10; just above 4 in 10 apply it at work. Nearly 8 in 10 stay on free tiers, and ChatGPT reaches almost 80% of chatbot users.","date":"2026-09-26","source":"https://jp.lt/6-is-10-jau-naudojasi-di-tyrimas-parode-kaip-technologija-prisijaukino-lietuviai/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Lithuania","role":"Category manager","org":"IKI","text":"IKI is extending AI promotion planning to 250 supermarkets in Lithuania with SymphonyAI's Promotional Evaluation and Promotional Planning products. Category trials lifted promotional forecast accuracy by more than 10 percentage points and cut empty shelves, vendor-reported figures. Category management head Klavs Berzins says buyers now foresee demand, the point of retail demand forecasting.","date":"2026-09-16","source":"https://www.ciocoverage.com/iki-advances-promotional-forecast-accuracy-by-more-than-10-points-with-symphonyai/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lithuania","role":"Air defence operator","org":"Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania","text":"Lithuania's Ministry of National Defence issued a roughly €5 million procurement for AI airspace surveillance, merging military sensors, radars and other agencies' feeds live. Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas expects stronger air-threat warning and response by state institutions from this AI drone detection network. Piloting begins early 2027, full sensor coverage follows within 2027, and NATO allies' platforms connect by 2028.","date":"2026-09-05","source":"https://mezha.net/eng/news/6b3ca072_lithuania_builds_ai_airspace/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Lithuania","role":"Customer service agent","org":"Vilniaus viešasis transportas","text":"Vilniaus viešasis transportas, public transport operator for Lithuania's capital, now uses AI customer service for its 50 to 100 daily passenger enquiries. Built with IT firm Nortus on a Microsoft platform in four weeks, it uses Gemini to read free-text letters, extract key facts, log them in the central database and draft replies.","date":"2026-06-14","source":"https://madeinvilnius.lt/transportas/viesasis-transportas/vilniaus-viesasis-transportas-zengia-i-nauja-etapa-dali-darbo-perims-dirbtinis-intelektas/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Lithuania","role":"Pathologist","org":"Valstybinis patologijos centras (Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos)","text":"Lithuania's State Pathology Centre, part of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, has adopted Ibex Breast HER2, AI digital pathology that helps pathologists score the HER2 biomarker in breast cancer. Santaros Klinikos calls it the first CE-IVDR certified algorithm of its kind in the Baltic states.","date":"2026-05","source":"https://www.15min.lt/sveikata/naujiena/sveikatos-naujienos/dirbtinis-intelektas-kovoje-su-kruties-veziu-lietuvoje-pradedama-taikyti-itin-tiksli-diagnostika-1696-2677086"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lithuania","org":"Ministry of the Economy and Innovation (EIMIN)","text":"€3 million in EU funding will back Lithuania's new AI regulatory sandbox, making it one of Europe's earliest adopters of such a scheme, per the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation. Small and medium enterprises gain a supervised space to build and refine AI tools before commercial launch, with the Innovation Agency and Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) as watchdogs. The initiative reflects a wider Lithuanian AI policy push toward safe AI system development ahead of market entry.","date":"2025-09-02","source":"https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/mokslas-ir-it/11/2662347/lietuva-viena-pirmuju-europoje-iveiklins-bandomaja-di-reguliacine-aplinka"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Lithuania","role":"Retail checkout staff","org":"IKI Lithuania","text":"AI facial age estimation now guards a self-checkout lane at IKI's Vilnius store on Pilaitės pr. 42, confirming shoppers buying age-restricted goods are over 25. StrongPoint built the on-device system for the Lithuania grocery chain, part of Rewe Group, shrinking a 30-second manual check to under 10 seconds and aiming to automate 60% of such checks. IKI says the automatic age recognition analysis stays on the device, sending nothing offsite and storing no images.","date":"2025-06-17","source":"https://www.strongpoint.com/news/strongpoint-brings-ai-age-verification-to-grocery-retail-in-lithuania/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lithuania","org":"Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania","text":"Lithuania AI regulation gained a legal footing when the Seimas passed Act XV-105, aligning the Law on Technology and Innovation with Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. The Innovation Agency now serves as notifying authority for AI conformity assessment, a statutory sandbox for testing AI systems was established, and start-up classification thresholds were narrowed. Most articles applied from 1 April 2025.","date":"2025-01-14","source":"https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/51938be0d27711efbd239e318cbd5b26"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Lithuania","role":"Communications officer","org":"Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas (Supreme Court of Lithuania)","text":"Lithuania's Supreme Court is testing TeDIA, a pilot assistant using AI press release drafting for courts to turn rulings into draft statements. Staff then rework the machine-generated text with queries and manual edits before sign-off. The trial, running through mid-2025, extends 2024 groundwork with Vilnius University into practical AI-assisted court communications.","date":"2025-01-01","source":"https://www.elektronika.lt/naujienos/kompiuterija/94808/lietuvos-auksciausiasis-teismas-pradeda-naudoti-teismo-dirbtinio-intelekto-iranki-tedia/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lithuania","org":"Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania","text":"Lithuania's Seimas set eleven principles governing public-sector AI governance under Resolution No. XIV-2620: oversight, accountability, traceability, quality control, equality, non-abuse, transparency, protection of human interests. These AI deployment principles bind government bodies, with no stated enforcement mechanism.","date":"2024-05-09","source":"https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/7ac1db408d5b11efaf94d67dd8b48a7c"}]}