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Leonid Vinyar, one of the founders of the Karaganda IT company Plusmicro, has died. EPAM Systems acquired it in 2008. We look back at the entrepreneur's journey.
Бизнесмен объяснил, что мешает Казахстану создать конкурента Yandex DigitalBusiness.kz
Armenia and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) discussed cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and scientific research. The parties also explored possibilities for specialist exchanges and joint training of personnel. During the visit of the Armenian…
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...
⚠️ Taxi fares nearly triple: inDrive receives warning from AZRK. Kazakhstan's Agency for Protection and Development of Competition issued a caution to inDrive after a sharp price surge on October 11. Due to a Yandex Go outage, passengers massively switched to other services…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expects that in 2027 cybercriminals will begin to more actively exploit the capabilities of advanced artificial intelligence models. He assesses that the combination of powerful AI tools and insufficient protection could lead to large-scale cyberattacks.
🧩 Artificial Analysis launches AA-3D. Models receive a text brief and must independently assemble an interactive three.js scene in an offline sandbox. The test comprised 55 tasks across seven categories, including architecture, vehicles, living organisms, games, and space. For each task, the model…
Kazakhstan's team placed fourth at the World Sports Robotics Championship • | SOZmedia
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…
At the international People&Projects Forum: Biomimetic & Management held in Astana on October 9–10, topics included digitalization of public administration, introduction of artificial intelligence for project monitoring, and automation of government agencies' work. At the forum in Kazakhstan…
In Kazakhstan, conscripts are learning to operate unmanned aerial vehicles, including FPV drones. The new specialty can be acquired directly in the army. Since the beginning of the year, training of drone operators has been included in the National Guard program. Among the first to attend classes…
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakhstan can turn its strengths in energy, mining, transport and industrial operations into an AI competitive advantage by investing in infrastructure, encouraging local talent and…
Итак, вы создаете приложение с помощью ИИ. Выглядит неплохо. Можно искать клиентов, открывать заявки в поддержку и нажимать кнопку для возврата средств. Работает отлично. Но потом вы передаете его кому-то еще в компании. Могут ли они оформлять любой возврат? Могут ли они просто…
⚡️ Zuckerberg returns to AI race: Meta releases Muse Wonder, surpassing OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta unveiled two new AI models — Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. They are direct competitors to OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. 💡What are the advantages of the new models?…
How companies can protect confidential information when using AI and why businesses need a secure corporate infrastructure
When government officials craft policies, there is often a comment period for public feedback. Lawmakers have long had to sort through fake feedback that is mass-produced in an effort to sway policy, but they’ve generally gotten used to detecting it. With, artificial…
Казахский KazLLM презентовали в Барселоне на MWC 2025 GOV.KZ
During testing, the AI model Claude Haiku 4.5 sent a false report about a real unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police website. The developer of the neural network, Anthropic, reported this in a statement. The message ended up in spam and was not passed on to investigators. What the neural network did Vo…
When I woke up this morning, I did not expect Meta to have a Frontier model. Yet, here we are. In fact, it's kind of beating every model on the planet. Maybe with the exception of Opus 5.5. Yeah, you heard me right. This is Muse Wonder and Muse Wonderful Full. Two models out of…
Head of State signs Decree declaring 2026 as Year of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence GOV.KZ
Deployment of data centers for AI has become humanity's largest infrastructure project, analysts noted
The International Center for Artificial Intelligence GOV.KZ will open in Astana
Paragon on air — wrapping up the day! Top stories for the day🟠12.10 🟠Meta — new AI model with memory 🟠Microsoft — call for stricter AI regulation 🟠iPhone Duo — pre-order for foldable iPhone from Oct 16 🟠Claude — monthly API credits 🟠OpenAI — more memory in GPT-6.1 Sol…
26 subscriptions to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — giving away for free! If you missed it — reminder that we currently have two giveaways of top AI subscriptions. ▶️3 ChatGPT Plus + 10 Google AI Pro — results tomorrow, October 13, at 13:00 MSK ▶️3 Claude Pro + 10 Google AI Pro —…
⚡️ Microsoft is betting on its chips: Maia will become the company's main inference platform From 2027, the company will scale the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments, and Maia will become the main inference system for its own products and services. At the same time...
Amazon Bedrock предоставляет глобальный доступ к моделям OpenAI GPT-6 через кросс-регионный доступ для команд в Азии.
Meta's new Muse Wonder models rank in the top three on six out of ten benchmarks, with the biggest gains in agentic tasks. But the cost per task has nearly tripled. The article Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier appeared first on The Decoder.
Company Description: Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) was founded in September 2019 to serve as the driver of research and innovation in the digital sphere of Kazakhstan with the focus on AI research. ISSAI aims to develop a national capacity for res