Yandex Launches New AI TVs With MiniLED and QLED Options

Posted by By Dan Taylor 3 Min Read

Yandex has introduced two new AI-powered smart TVs running on its YaOS X platform. The new models are designed to strengthen both the premium and budget categories of the company’s TV lineup.

The top-tier model, TV Station Pro, features a MiniLED screen and comes in 55″, 65″, and 75″ sizes. Prices range from 89,990 to 149,990 rubles.

The budget-friendly TV Station Basic uses a QLED panel and is available in 43″, 50″, 55″, and 65″ versions. It is priced between 34,990 and 69,990 rubles.

TV Station Pro Offers Smart Home Integration

TV Station Pro is the most advanced TV in the Yandex lineup to date. It uses artificial intelligence to optimize color in real time and offers an enhanced sound experience through two 30 W speakers and a 20 W subwoofer.

For the first time in the TV Station series, this model supports Zigbee, allowing it to act as a control hub for smart home devices. It is also compatible with Matter and Wi-Fi protocols, ensuring broad device support.

Users can display live video from cameras and view smart sensor data directly on the TV screen.

TV Station Basic Brings AI Features to a Lower Price Point

TV Station Basic includes many of the same smart features as the Pro model but uses a QLED display and more modest hardware. It still supports full smart home control and includes Yandex’s AI assistant.

The affordable pricing makes it a more accessible option for users who still want advanced features and ecosystem integration.

All TV Station Models Receive Major Software Update

Along with the hardware launch, Yandex announced a major update for all existing TV Station models.

Users can now control third-party apps such as IVI, VK Video, Wink, and RUTUBE using voice commands.

A new game assistant powered by Alice can analyze in-game context and offer helpful hints.

The update also introduces a “Night Session” mode. This adjusts brightness and color settings based on lighting conditions and smooths out loud sounds at night while keeping dialogue clear.

The recommendation system has also been improved. Alice now gives more accurate movie suggestions, even when users don’t have a specific title in mind.

Recent Moves by Yandex

This product launch follows Yandex’s earlier announcement of its new “Care” service. The service offers insurance options for users of its Taxi, Afisha, Market, and Delivery platforms.

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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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