Yandex’s Alice AI Search team has published a rare look under the bonnet of its generative quick answers — and open-sourced the base pretrain. In an 11 September 2026 Habr deep dive, the team describes Alice AI-T5-35B-A0.6B: a hybrid encoder-decoder ...
Yandex Search now lets users flip from classic results into a full Alice AI dialog tab under the search box. Multi-turn chat, file and image uploads, persistent history — sitting beside the SERP rather than only as a one-shot quick ...
Yandex Wordstat — the demand data SEOs in Russia actually live in — is no longer locked behind a Direct advertising account. Practitioners are documenting Wordstat endpoints inside Yandex Cloud Search API v2, reachable with a normal AI Studio API ...
When most discussions about search ranking signals take place, they tend to focus on Google. However, outside the Western search ecosystem, other engines have developed their own ranking logic based on different assumptions about users, behaviour, and geography. One of ...
Yandex B2B Tech has announced a major update to Yandex AI Studio, its platform for building artificial intelligence applications. The update introduces new tools that allow businesses to create intelligent AI agents capable of performing complex tasks consistently. The update ...
Yandex has introduced Yandex AI Türkiye, a new super app developed specifically for users in Türkiye. Built by a local team, the app combines generative artificial intelligence, search engine capabilities, and a built-in browser into a single platform. The service ...
Search is fragmenting fast. Across Asia, Eastern Europe, and privacy-first markets, discovery is no longer driven by blue links or a single dominant engine. It is shaped by local AI systems, regional portals, government-aligned platforms, community knowledge bases, and retrieval ...
Yandex Search Türkiye has expanded its user base by over 75% in 2025, driven by AI-powered features tailored to the local market. CEO Alexander Popovskiy confirmed the growth during his remarks at the 8th Türkiye Artificial Intelligence Summit in Istanbul. ...
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 ...
Yandex is pushing forward in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. Central to this effort is YandexGPT, its proprietary generative AI platform, which now powers a range of services and supports business and research applications. The company has restructured ...