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Казахстан рассчитывает наладить партнерство портового комплекса Антверпен-Брюгге с портами Актау и Курык для расширения рынков сбыта отечественной продукции. Об этом президент Касым-Жомарт Токаев заявил на четвертом заседании казахстанско-бельгийского Делового совета, сообщили в…
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🎙 Участник Astana Hub — казахстанский стартап NCSpeech совместно с inDrive разработал голосовые модели для казахской и смешанной казахско-русской речи. По данным команды, модель допускает вдвое меньше ошибок при распознавании казахской речи, чем решения крупнейших мировых технологических компаний. В основе разработки — сотни часов живой речи пользователей inDrive. [Сегодня технология уже доступна в NCSpeech Studio для расшифровки аудио, озвучивания и интеграции в другие продукты](https://studio.ncspeech.ai/). 🚀 В 2026 году NCSpeech стал победителем конкурса [alem.ai](http://alem.ai/) battle и получил награду Market Shaper на Astana Hub Battle. 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
Promise Robotics says it can accelerate homebuilding by standardizing component manufacturing. Source: Promise Robotics The construction industry is fragmented and has been relatively conservative about adopting new technologies, but physical AI promises to modernize…
✔️ DeepSeek will invest in robotics startup Winverse AI A Chinese developer will lead the round of Winverse AI, which makes embodied AI models for robotics. The Long-Z fund, owned by Meituan, China's largest service provider, is also participating in the deal. Founded Winverse...
👾 Decentrathon 6.0 is the main hackathon in the country! Astana Hub and Blockchain & AI Technology Center (BAITC) organize the Decentrathon 6.0 hackathon with the support of the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 🗓 October 30-31, 2026 📍 19 cities of Kazakhstan In two days...
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the…
AI labs are starting to buy data from defunct startups to train their models.
🏗 AI Startup Promises to Create Construction Drawings in Minutes Blueprints AI is developing a system that turns a 2D sketch or PDF into a set of architectural documents, ready to be checked for compliance with building codes. In the new version it will be possible to immediately generate...
Educational initiatives of ICRIAP and Astana Hub: free AI training for all categories of the population of Kazakhstan GOV.KZ
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code…
Бизнесмен объяснил, что мешает Казахстану создать конкурента Yandex DigitalBusiness.kz
Network School, основанная технологическим предпринимателем Баладжи Шринивасаном, привлекает инвестиционный раунд при оценке в $2 миллиарда. Штаб-квартира проекта находится в Казахстане. Среди участников раунда — Polychain Capital, Andreessen Horowitz и Coinbase. О раунде…
Entrepreneur and investor Iman Gadji announced investments in Higgsfield — a company developing artificial intelligence tools for creating video and other visual content. The startup, with a team in Almaty, is valued at $5.4 billion. Iman Gadji invested in…
Amazon is in talks to buy Israeli startup Decart, which develops AI acceleration technologies. According to The Wall Street Journal, the potential deal value is around $7 billion. If the agreement goes through, it would rank among the largest...
Закупки оборудования для ресторанов и заработок на сборе данных для искусственного интеллекта – с такими предложениями казахстанские Prometei и NCSpeech приехали на Startup Campus в штаб-квартиру Glovo в Барселоне. Сооснователь Glovo Саша Мишо рассказал Kursiv о возможностях…
The International Center for Artificial Intelligence GOV.KZ will open in Astana
Meta представила новые модели Muse Wonder, которые показывают успехи в ИИ.
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
Стартап Blueprints AI создает архитектурные чертежи за минуты с помощью ИИ.
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
Бывший исполнительный директор Plaud привлек $26 млн для приложения ИИ, которое слушает пользователей постоянно.
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins z— 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next. This is your last 24 hours to secure ticket…
Технологический проект Network School, штаб-квартира которого находится в Казахстане, объявил о привлечении инвестиций при оценке бизнеса в $2 млрд. В раунде участвуют крупные международные игроки венчурного и криптовалютного рынков, включая Polychain Capital, Andreessen…
🛒 Humanoids are taught to work in supermarkets at night. In the Føtex store near Copenhagen, Unitree G1 is learning to replenish shelves after closing. The project was launched by the Danish startup Hive Robots and the country's largest retailer Salling Group. While every movement of the robot is controlled by an operator in...
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, sees a widening knowledge gap in AI. About 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs. Roughly 5,000 people, meanwhile, have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms do work that would…
❓ New rules await the Fintech market of Kazakhstan: what will change for business From October 21, 2026, changes in the regulation of payment organizations will come into force in Kazakhstan. They provide for the emergence of payment organizations of the first category that will be able to carry out payments and...