Yandex YandexGPT News

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Announcement of a universal AI agent for office tasks

Yandex announced a general-purpose AI agent built on Yandex AI Studio to handle 30–50% of routine work for managers, analysts, and accountants: integration with AmoCRM and Kontur.Focus, scheduled background mode, and no-code custom skills. Release is planned for late September 2026; pricing has not been disclosed.

A similar idea for no-code automation and agents, but open and self-hosted n8n →
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Alice AI LLM Flash — a lightweight model for business

Yandex released Alice AI LLM Flash: according to the vendor, it outperforms GPT-5.4 mini in 56% of business cases and costs approximately 5 times less than the lineup's top model. It was trained entirely on Yandex data; weights are not published and access is available only through the Yandex Cloud API.

A similar lite/flash model lineup for low-cost, high-volume use cases Google Gemini →A direct competitor in the CIS market using the same closed-weights model Sber GigaChat →
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AI Studio: reasoning agents based on DeepSeek-V3.2, new tokens, and security

Yandex AI Studio has made reasoning agents based on DeepSeek-V3.2 available to businesses (not a Yandex-developed model). DeepSeek’s weights are open from the developer, but Yandex access is available only through a closed cloud API. Agents solve multi-step tasks sequentially (tenders, code, automated tests), with cached/tool tokens, scenarios costing 4+ times less, a dedicated channel, and a no-request-logging mode.

Also an open model that vendors wrap in a closed cloud API Alibaba Qwen →An alternative agent orchestration layer outside Yandex Cloud n8n →
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AI Search — web search for AI agents

Yandex Cloud released AI Search: agents can access web search (with filters by language, region, and site) and corporate documents (PDFs and presentations) with source citations. Yandex positions this as a capability available worldwide from only a few vendors, such as OpenAI and Perplexity.

A managed search layer as an alternative to a custom RAG pipeline RAG →
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The flagship YandexGPT lineup has been renamed Alice AI

Yandex B2B Tech opened access to Alice AI (LLM + ART), the new name for its flagship neural-network lineup replacing YandexGPT. According to the vendor, Alice AI LLM outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 and Qwen3-235B in 60% of business tasks. Available only through Yandex Cloud AI Studio, with closed weights.

The same closed-weights strategy, with access strictly through the API Anthropic Claude →Yandex compares Alice AI directly with the open Qwen3-235B Alibaba Qwen →

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