Crypto Briefing

Yandex builds its own AI model as Russia pushes sovereignty

Yandex releases AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base under Apache 2.0, an open-weight MoE model with 80B total and 3B active parameters and 262K token ...
MarkTechPost

Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade

Yandex SONA replaces Yandex Music's recommendation cascade with 1 generative model, lifting Active Users 4.53% in A/B tests.

Yandex Sona: World’s First AI Model to Replace Full Recommendation Pipeline Without Hand-Engineered Features

Los Angeles, California, October 1st, 2026, FinanceWireYandex has introduced Sona, a generative AI model designed to handle ...
SiliconRepublic

Russia’s Yandex gives public access to GPT-like large language model

Yandex said it wants to promote new research into large language models by sharing best practices with the AI developer community. Russian tech company Yandex said it has made a large language model ...
Ars Technica

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”

Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s ...
akm

Yandex launches a new generation of YandexGPT 4 language models: they have learned to reason and process four times as much text

Yandex has released a new generation of generative neural networks — YandexGPT 4. The new line includes a powerful Pro language model and a lightweight Lite version. They are superior in response ...
akm

Yandex and leading universities have presented a unified model for training specialists in physical AI

Yandex and five national research universities — HSE, MAI, MEPhI, MIPT and ITMO — we have developed a model of competencies in the field of physical AI. This is the first in Here is a complete ...
Financial Post

Russia's Yandex opens public access to AI large language model

MOSCOW — Russian technology company Yandex said on Thursday it had made a large language model for artificial intelligence research open to the public, hoping to spawn faster and deeper development of ...