Ukrainians choose the name Syayvo for their national LLM

The winner of the vote among 10 names for the national Large Language Model (LLM) was Syayvo, receiving 22,600 votes, the Ministry of Digital Transformation has announced.

According to the Ministry of Digital Transformation on Monday, more than 136,000 Ukrainians participated in the selection of the name for the national LLM.

It is noted that the name chosen by Ukrainians will be featured in government services, businesses, education, and defense, will facilitate faster data processing, automate processes, and will also become the basis for new digital products.

The Ministry of Digital Development clarified that the main selection criterion was uniqueness; in particular, ideas had to be original, free of plagiarism and copyright infringement.

"Thank you to everyone who joined the vote. You are part of the creation of Ukrainian AI," the Ministry of Digital Transformation wrote.

Other variant names included: Pytai, Slovo, Dzvinka, Hoverla, Shypit, Shukai, Yadro, Kavun and Homin.

In early January, it was reported that beta testing of the national LLM was planned to launch in the spring of 2026.

According to former First Deputy Prime Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, the first text database for LLM training was supposed to be created in January, along with an improved tokenizer that separates words into elements for fast and efficient language processing, and proprietary benchmarks for quality assessment.

In December 2025, it was reported that the Ministry of Digital Transformation, together with Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, selected Google’s Gemma 3 model (an open-source AI model) to train Ukraine’s LLM.

In its press release, Kyivstar then recalled that the Gemma model had already demonstrated results as the base model for MamayLM and Lapa LLM – the first Ukrainian LLMs, as well as for INSAIT BgGPT – a modern LLM for the Bulgarian language.