Yandex AI

Yandex AI covers Alice, Neuro, generative SERP features, and other Yandex AI search experiences. We track model and product updates, how AI answers appear in Yandex results, and what that means for citations, traffic, and measurement in Russian-language search.

SEO-focused International Search Insights reporting: not generic AI news, but Yandex-specific generative search changes that affect ranking strategy and content priorities for Yandex SEO teams. Pair with Yandex SEO for classic ranking tactics and Yandex News for announcement timelines.

Essential reading when Neuro or Alice-driven answers change what “winning the SERP” looks like in Yandex.

Yandex Launches Alice AI ‘Act!’: A Cloud Browser That Fills In Your Forms, Phone Calls and MCP Plugins

Yandex’s Alice AI Starts Phoning Businesses for Users, as Yandex Ads Says Brands Must Now Win Over AI Agents

89% of Russians Now Factor AI Answers Into Search — and Runet Sites Lost 29% of Their Visitors

Yandex Q3 2026: Alice AI Now Answers 44% of Search Queries, and Yandex Withdraws 2026 Guidance After the Data-Centre Attacks

Yandex Says Its Supercomputers Survived the Data-Centre Attacks and Are Being Moved — While Webmaster Still Won’t Take New Sites or Sitemaps

Yandex Promises a ‘Large-Scale’ Alice AI Update Within Weeks — App DAU Up 14% as It Talks Past the Data Centre Outage

Alice AI Reached 48% of Russians in September — Four Times DeepSeek, and Mediascope Didn’t Even Count Search Answers

Alice AI and ChatGPT Named Just 9 of 30 Local Firms From Yandex’s First Pages — Maps Ratings Mattered More Than Rankings

Alice AI Quick Answers Now Sit on ~15% of Yandex Ecommerce Queries — and the Product Cards Aren’t From Your Site

Yandex Open-Sources the Engine Behind Its Ad Models — Press Release Says Delay “Almost Eliminated”, Engineers Say Two Hours