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ISO/IEC 42001 extends to all models in the Alice AI family

Yandex was the first in CIS to receive ISO/IEC 42001 for the base YandexGPT model back in 2025; certification now covers the full Alice AI lineup (LLM, ART, VLM) - development processes and data protection passed an independent audit.

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AI agent "Find Cheaper" in Alice AI chat

An agent inside Alice AI searches products across billions of offers online and completes the purchase directly in chat: average savings of 25% (about 6,000 RUB), with search taking 5-8 minutes. Available to 30.5 million monthly chat users; no specific agent model was named.

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Yandex AI Studio: reasoning agents on DeepSeek-V3.2, price cuts

Yandex AI Studio gave businesses a builder for reasoning agents based on DeepSeek-V3.2 (third-party, not YandexGPT) for multi-step tasks such as tender analysis, incident review, and code. Caching/tool tokens were added (4x cheaper), along with secure connectivity and no request logging in the enterprise environment.

A secure proxy with no logging and deployment in a corporate environment - a typical gateway-product pattern, here built directly into Yandex's cloud platform LLM & Security Gateway →
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Alice AI: rebrand of the flagship chat model, MoE architecture

Yandex relaunched the Alice chat on the new Alice AI LLM model - a MoE architecture with hundreds of billions of parameters, trained with online RL and built-in multi-stage web search. The YandexGPT brand for the chat flagship has effectively been replaced by Alice AI; weights are closed.

MoE architecture for flagship LLMs from Google (Gemini 1.5, 2024) and OpenAI was adopted earlier, so Yandex is following the trend rather than setting it Google Gemini →
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YandexGPT 5.1 Pro: flagship business model in AI Studio

Yandex B2B Tech opened access to YandexGPT 5.1 Pro through Yandex Cloud AI Studio: the share of good answers rose from 60% to 71%, hallucinations fell by half to 16%, and the price was cut threefold to 40 kopeks per 1,000 tokens. The model is available only via API, with closed weights.

A similar closed flagship model for business via API - both vendors on the CIS market keep their top model weights closed Sber GigaChat →

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