$500M New NVIDIA GPU Cluster: YerevaNN’s Research Roadmap and Opportunities for SoCal

​2026 will open with a major expansion of Armenia’s GPU capacity.

​Yerevan State University will launch a government-funded supercomputer with 64 GPUs. Eleveight.ai will then deploy a 500+ GPU cluster, followed by Firebird.ai’s 6,144-GPU system.

​Join us at Hero House to discuss the research and collaboration opportunities created by these investments.

​Speakers

• ​Juan Saez (Firebird.ai) – will present latest project updates and the Firebird team's vision for academic collaboration and where we see the biggest opportunity for scaling research by and for Armenians." 

• ​Hrant Khachatrian (YerevaNN / Yerevan State University) will cover ongoing work in Physical AI, the talent pipeline, and partnership opportunities (along with compute access) for researchers in California.

​About Hero House

Hero House Glendale is SmartGateVC’s innovation hub in Southern California, designed to connect researchers, founders, and industry leaders to build venture-scale companies. SmartGateVC is a SoCal- and Armenia-based VC investing at the early stage in Physical AI, brain-computer interfaces, and cybersecurity.