Giotto.ai and RUAG AG Sign Cooperation to Integrate 200M-Parameter Reasoning System into Swiss Defense AI Platform LLARA

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Giotto.ai and RUAG AG Sign Cooperation to Integrate 200M-Parameter Reasoning System into Swiss Defense AI Platform LLARA

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On 23 April 2026, Lausanne-based Giotto.ai — a Swiss frontier AI research lab founded in 2017 — and RUAG AG, the technology partner to the Swiss Armed Forces, signed a cooperation agreement to distribute and deploy Giotto.ai's award-winning AI reasoning technology through RUAG's customer channels. Under the deal, Giotto.ai will provide RUAG with its portable intelligence system for enterprise deployments, and RUAG will integrate Giotto.ai's technology into its AI platform LLARA to unlock new high-impact industrial applications and further enhance its applicability on novel AI use cases. Giotto.ai has developed a portable intelligence system that orchestrates small models to tackle complex, real-world applications; by applying advanced reasoning techniques at inference time, the system enables these models to deliver stronger performance than a single large model while remaining more secure, cost-efficient, and deployable on constrained infrastructure — paving the way for a more sustainable and sovereign future for AI. Teams at Giotto.ai and RUAG will also cooperate on the successful deployment of the technology for selected customers, combining the proximity of the two Swiss-based teams to develop a high-quality sovereign solution. The partnership represents a crucial step for Giotto.ai toward industrial validation of its proprietary technology, increasing its involvement in sovereign and secure AI after winning a public tender in the defense sector last summer. In support of the cooperation, the Giotto.ai team recently published a comprehensive technical report detailing how the Swiss lab led for months the 2025 ARC-AGI-2 (Abstract and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence) competition — the world's leading AI benchmark that measures progress toward general intelligence — using a 200M-parameter system. In that context, Giotto.ai achieved a performance score above 27%, outperforming world-renowned AI market leaders on a small-model architecture. Aldo Podestà, Co-Founder and CEO of Giotto.ai, said: 'Becoming RUAG's partner and provider is a true milestone for Giotto.ai. It validates once again the vision we have pursued for the past years: powerful AI systems will increasingly be built from small but smart models, hence enabling sovereign adoption and strategic independence. We are proud to support such a well-established group whose mission is central to Swiss national security.' Stephan Hirth, VP Cluster Secure Communications & Sensors at RUAG, said: 'We welcome this cooperation with Giotto.ai as a Swiss technology provider and look forward to integrating its reasoning technology into our AI platform LLARA. The partnership supports our commitment to sovereign, secure, and efficient AI solutions tailored to the needs of our customers.' Founded in 2017, Giotto.ai is a multinational-staffed, Swiss-based AI research lab focused on developing a world-leading portable reasoning system, with the company working on a capital raise to consolidate its independent and sovereign model and serve companies and institutions across Switzerland and Europe.