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 ...
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 ...
Crypto Briefing

Yandex builds new AI model without third-party components

Yandex has built a new large language model, Alice AI Foundation, entirely from scratch and released its weights for commercial and research use, Vedomosti reported. The company says the model ...
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 ...
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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 ...