Yandex Launches YaC 2024 Series Highlighting Services and Technologies

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Yandex has unveiled its latest video series, YaC 2024, showcasing the company’s services and technologies. This year’s mini-series features six episodes, each offering a unique perspective on how Yandex is shaping the digital landscape.

The episodes cover various topics, from artificial intelligence to daily conveniences. Viewers can explore the inner workings of Yandex’s Neuro service, learn about robotic capabilities, and discover how AI simplifies work processes. The series also examines the feasibility of providing every schoolchild with a personal tutor.

Overview of the Episodes

The six episodes focus on different aspects of Yandex’s offerings:

Neural Networks: This episode charts the evolution of GPT technologies from experimental tools to services used by millions within two years.

City: It highlights how Yandex’s tools help users manage tasks and navigate cities more efficiently.

Experiences: Viewers can explore fun opportunities, like maximizing purchases, discovering new restaurants, and planning weekend getaways.

Home: This episode delves into features that enhance comfort, focusing on products like TV Stations, Kinopoisk, Lavka, and Knigi.

Work: It showcases tools for handling emails, brainstorming, and coding with neural network support.

People: Dedicated to Yandex employees, this episode reveals how curiosity drives innovation and industry transformation.

Each episode offers practical tips and life hacks to help users integrate Yandex services into their daily lives.

New Innovations From YaC

Yandex used YaC 2024 to announce several new features and updates:

  • TV Station Enhancements: Alice, Yandex’s virtual assistant, now supports multi-part queries and considers on-screen activity. For instance, users can command, “Turn off the TV when the match is over.”
  • Autonomous Transport: A neural network transformer now plans autonomous vehicle trajectories.
  • Delivery Assistance: Yandex Delivery is testing an “Assistant” feature that allows couriers to handle small errands, such as picking up dry cleaning or buying school supplies. This option is available in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Novosibirsk.
  • Flexible Deliveries: Yandex Market now lets users arrange home delivery of items from pick-up points through Lavka couriers.
  • Queue Feature: The Yandex Go app now shows passengers their place in the queue during high-demand periods, helping them decide whether to wait or find alternative transportation.

Availability

The YaC 2024 series is available on YouTube, Kinopoisk, and VK Video.

About YaC

YaC started as a small event focused on Yandex’s technical innovations and has since evolved into a larger conference. In recent years, the event has been presented in video format.

Last year, YaC featured four episodes highlighting Yandex’s role at home, in cities, on the web, and in the lives of its engineers.

Source: Yandex Press Release
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Dan Taylor is the founder and editor of International Search Insights (ISI), the publication behind ReadIsi, and a Partner and Head of Innovation (Search & AI) at SALT.agency. He has worked in search for more than a decade, in-house and agency-side, and is regarded as one of the West’s leading voices on search engines beyond Google, including Yandex, Baidu, Naver and Cốc Cốc. On ReadIsi, Dan covers the engines and AI answer platforms that English-language coverage tends to miss: Baidu and ERNIE, Yandex and Alice AI, Naver, Cốc Cốc, Shenma, Sogou, WeChat and Weibo search, plus DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. He also keeps dated records of documented changes, such as the Yandex, Baidu and Naver algorithm update histories and the DeepSeek, ERNIE and Qwen model update histories. His approach is to take learnings from global search engines and apply logic with a high evidence threshold. A claim needs a source, patterns seen in one market are treated as a hypothesis until they are checked in another, and where the evidence is thin he says so. For brands, that means advice built on what can be shown, with measurement that separates being cited from being chosen. Dan is credited with coining the term “edge SEO” and won the inaugural TechSEO Boost research competition in 2018 for his work on CDN and edge changes for SEO. In 2026 he was credited with coining “Infinite Tail” to describe how keyword research is changing with AI search. He is the author of AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector, writes for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and Travel Marketing Guy, and has advised technology, SaaS, travel and enterprise ecommerce brands, including Cloudflare, GitLab and Airbnb. He has given multiple talks and panels at the International Search Summit in Barcelona, and has also spoken at Optimization Moscow, brightonSEO, Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Asia in Bangkok, Athens SEO and the Asia SEO Virtual Summit 2026, where his talk looked at how Baidu, Naver, DeepSeek, Tencent, Cốc Cốc and Yandex built their own AI answers.
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