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ISO/IEC 42001 applies to the entire Alice AI family

Responsible AI development certificate, previously issued only for base YandexGPT (July 2025), expanded to Alice AI LLM, VLM, and ART. Audit checked development processes, data protection, and error monitoring, not the model itself.

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Alice AI received a platform for integrating AI agents

Launched platform for third-party and internal agents within Alice AI chat; first agents from Yandex Taxi and Yandex Lavka, external company access promised later. Tool orchestration follows same path as MCP Hub in AI Studio.

agent platform relies on the same MCP protocol as MCP Hub in Yandex Cloud AI Studio MCP →Functionally overlaps with low-code orchestration of agents/automations in n8n n8n →
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Yandex AI Studio: reasoning agents on DeepSeek-V3.2, hybrid deployment

Platform update added agents based on third-party DeepSeek-V3.2 (open weights) alongside its closed model — for procurement, incident analysis, code work. Introduced hybrid mode: confidential data on own infrastructure, heavy compute in cloud; agent scenarios cut costs 4+ times.

open weights as basis for self-hosted agents — same model class Yandex integrated alongside its closed line Alibaba Qwen →
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Business access to Alice AI model family opened in Yandex Cloud

Alice AI LLM released in Yandex AI Studio for business; internal testing shows it outperforms DeepSeek V3.1 and Qwen3-235B on 60% of business tasks. Model available only via cloud/API, weights not published.

Qwen3-235B adopted by Yandex as benchmark competitor; Qwen publishes weights, Alice AI LLM does not Alibaba Qwen →
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Rebranding 'Alice's Neural Networks' to Alice AI, new LLM/Art/VLM model family

Product renamed to Alice AI, new generation of models introduced: Alice AI LLM (text), Alice AI Art (images), Alice AI VLM (visual analysis); answers combine text, images, video, and Yandex Maps data. All models closed, access only through Yandex products.

similar strategy of unified multimodal family (text/images/video) under one brand Google Gemini →
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YandexGPT 5.1 Pro open for business in Yandex Cloud AI Studio

Flagship model for business: Yandex internal blind testing shows it outperforms GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) in 56% of cases and its predecessor in 58%; hallucinates half as often. Available only via API in the cloud and Alice, weights not published — closed weights.

Same pattern: flagship model (GigaChat 3 Ultra) — closed weights, access only via vendor API/cloud Sber GigaChat →

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