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🌟 Recursive has released a model for coding agents The startup Recursive Superintelligence, founded by Richard Socher and emerging from the shadows in May with $650 million in investments, showed its first model - Flint. Recursive received this kind of money even before the first model, largely due to...
🏆 HackAlem AI: Award ceremony held for winners of the world's largest AI hackathon! HackAlem AI — an AI hackathon that set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ record for number of participants. 2,415 people took part, submitting 1,066 AI solutions. 60 of them advanced to the finals. The winners overall…
🇰🇿 Happy Republic Day! Republic Day is a symbol of our statehood, unity, and the aspiration of independent Kazakhstan to flourish. Today our country takes a confident step into the future through the development of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and technological entrepreneurship…
🇰🇿 Historic visit: NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang visits Kazakhstan for the first time! At the alem.ai International AI Center, he was introduced to the country's technological potential: from promising AI startups to domestic developments…
🎙 AI pendant for $249 will constantly listen to its owner and analyze their emotions. Startup Nirva, founded by former Meta employees, raised $33M to develop a smart jewelry piece with built-in AI. The device's main feature — it continuously listens to the owner's speech, but…
Continuing the visit, the Data Center Valley project, a large-scale cluster of data processing centers being built in Ekibastuz, was also introduced. The project envisages the phased development of infrastructure with a total energy capacity of 1 GW, while the volume of 215 MW...
As part of Jensen Huang's visit, Astana Hub CEO Magzhan Madiev presented the Startup City project, a digital city of startups based on the principles of Peer-to-Peer interaction and gamification. This platform provides regional news, educational programs,…
"Kazakhstan is the first country I visited, whose president declared the development of artificial intelligence a national priority. Artificial intelligence can take your countries to the next level, empower people, and allow companies to compete in the global market and scale…
A selection of activities: what to work on now ㅤ 🟠OpenTrain - $38–42 per hour for checking AI answers in Russian, remotely and only about 7 hours a week. We are responding to a vacancy; we need Russian, written English and university studies or a diploma. ㅤ 🟠Aha! AI Builder Day - from 17 to 20...
⚡️️️️️️️NVIDIA invested in the Kazakh startup Higgsfield AI During a speech in Astana, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang was asked why the company decided to invest in Higgsfield AI and what other startups should focus on in order to...
For the first time, scientists injected viruses created with AI into a patient for treatment. Startup Radical Numerics, using its Omnii-1 model, created bacteriophages (viruses that attack bacteria) and injected them into a patient with a dangerous bacterial infection. The Omnii-1 model was trained on trillions of tokens at once...
📌 Keynote GTC Berlin 2026 The main topics are physical AI, sovereign computing and the transformation of data centers into the format of factories that produce intelligence as a product. Over the year, Nvidia invested almost $10 billion in Europe, announced 14 investments in startups and counted more than 12...
Coming from Google, Anthropic showed an AI model that was trained from scratch by 1 person, and 99% of the code was written by AI agents. Mirendil startup was founded by Benam Neishabur, Harsh Mehta, who previously worked at Anthropic and Google, as well as Shayan Salekhian, ex-xAI and Tara Rezaei, an MIT graduate. Yesterday…
🤖 A Pixar-style robot butler was created in the USA - he brings slippers and dances to the music Startup Tuesday Labs introduced Voxel, a home robot inspired by Pixar cartoon characters. Former studio animators were involved in the development to give the robot...
🛰 Production of satellites and their components may be launched in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan is considering the possibility of joint production of satellites with the international company CONTEC. The prospects for cooperation were discussed by Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and the company’s management at…
🚀 Why is a personal brand important for business development? The role of the personal brand in the development of the company will be discussed at the meeting with Leonid Nigmatullin, the founder and CEO of BLVD creative PR agency, winner of Cannes Lions 2025. Competition in Kazakhstan's startup industry...
🇺🇸 Are you planning to develop your startup in the USA? In a practical workshop with the participation of Alma's commercial director Daniyar Erdenov, immigration issues related to business introduction to the US market will be discussed. Meeting in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
🚀 How to attract investment in a startup in the age of AI? Astana Hub will hold an online workshop Best Practices in Fundraising from Agentic Investors with the participation of the founder and CEO of VNTR Yuriy Rabinovich. Using meeting AI tools,…
💙 Social Impact: 5 features on the astanahub.com platform that you can use today! We have collected 5 Social Impact activities available to participants of the Astana Hub ecosystem: 📝 Share your experience — about your participation in AI & Digital Bridge 2026 on the astanahub.com platform…
🌟 CLM-8B: an open and fast model for selecting agent actions Stanford, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has made the first model of the Contrastive Language Models class publicly available. This is an open analogue of Jev, which was presented on September 15 by the TypeSafe AI startup of a former researcher...
✔️ Dream Labs presented a model for controlling unfamiliar robots Four former NVIDIA researchers from the GR00T robotics project team came out of stealth with their startup and opened the public API of the Dream-1 model. The company was led by Joel Jang, who led the GR00T…
🌱 Стартап научил ИИ понимать «язык» растений через электрические сигналы Американская компания Electric Plant разработала модель Bombadil, которая анализирует электрическую активность растений и помогает определить, когда им нужны вода, свет или питательные вещества. Для этого…
💰 Бывший глава Google владеет примерно 1% Anthropic — его доля может стоить $20 млрд По данным Bloomberg, Эрик Шмидт вложил десятки миллионов долларов в Anthropic ещё в 2021 году, когда стартап оценивался всего в $461 млн. Теперь ему, предположительно, принадлежит около 1%…
✔️ Liquid AI представила модель принятия решений Бостонский стартап, выросший из MIT, выпустил d1-ultra – самую крупную собственную модель, которая получает на вход описание ситуации и набор типизированных вопросов, а возвращает вероятность каждого варианта ответа. D1-ultra…
🚀 Jensen Huang for the first time in Astana! 🔴 Watch the live broadcast from Astana Hub YouTube channel: Fireside Chat meeting between NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev. Discussion…
Ahead of Scorpio season, Anthropic showed how Claude is engineering proteins against scorpion toxins 🦂 Investment firm Citrini Research teamed up with Anthropic to test how good AI really is at biotech. Five analysts along with an internal model...
🎚️ 🏆 На HackAlem AI определили победителей: 60 команд представили свои ИИ-проекты 16 октября прошел финальный Demo Day международного AI-хакатона HackAlem AI. Из 1 066 проектов эксперты отобрали 60 лучших, которые представили свои решения жюри в онлайн-формате. Победителей…
💵 ИИ-платформа цифровых инвестиций Paidax привлекла $1 млн финансирования Paidax, цифровая инвестиционная платформа из Центральной Азии, привлекла $1 млн в раунде финансирования при участии DOMiNO Ventures, Philip Capital, White Hill Capital и Aloqa Ventures. Платформа…
👨🎓 AlmaU students were among the top three winners of HackAlem AI with a service for purchasing automation. The GrimStack team from Almaty Management University took third place in the Logistics category at the international HackAlem AI hackathon, in which more than 800 teams participated. Students...
🏰 Disney заберёт большую часть сотрудников обанкротившейся Character.AI После объявления о банкротстве Character.AI компания Disney согласилась предложить работу как минимум 60 сотрудникам стартапа — это большая часть его команды. По данным Bloomberg, их совокупная годовая…