Πώς το Καζακστάν ελπίζει να κατευθύνει το κύμα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης της Κεντρικής Ασίας

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Πώς το Καζακστάν ελπίζει να κατευθύνει το κύμα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης της Κεντρικής Ασίας  Με φιλοδοξίες να ηγηθεί στον αναδυόμενο τομέα της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στην Κεντρική Ασία, το Καζακστάν εγκαινιάζει έναν παγκόσμιο κόμβο για την ανάπτυξη νεοφυών επιχειρήσεων από την τάξη στην αγορά.  Σε συνεργασία με MDQ  ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΕΠΙΣΗΣ : http://gr.euronews.com/2025/10/29/pws-to-kazakstan-elpizei-na-katey8ynei-to-kyma-texnhths-nohmosynhs-ths-kentrikhs-asias  Γίνε συνδρομητής! ! Το euronews είναι διαθέσιμο σε 12 γλώσσες

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00:00Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE

00:30Welcome to EastWestConnect.

00:31We're highlighting business and economic developments in Kazakhstan and the wider Central Asia region,

00:36connecting with Europe and beyond.

00:39Kazakhstan unveiled its first and largest supercomputer this summer.

00:42Powered by NVIDIA chips and built for AI research,

00:45it can perform two quintillion calculations per second.

00:48We sat down with Jaslan Madiev, Deputy Prime Minister,

00:51overseeing artificial intelligence and digital development

00:54to explore how the nation is shaping its AI ecosystem.

01:00We are opening other supercomputer clusters.

01:02We have a supercomputer GPU cluster in the U.S., in Silicon Valley, in Texas.

01:07Now opening another supercomputer cluster in Almaty.

01:10So this is the important computing infrastructure

01:14that will be available for startups, science centers,

01:19research and R&D centers, universities,

01:22Samruk Casino holding company and national companies and government bodies.

01:28So this is for developing of AI agents, AI products and embedding AI into the economy.

01:36On the top of that, we have built several Kazakh large language models

01:40which will be used by those platforms.

01:42And from the digital sovereignty perspective, it's a very important step.

01:48We have our Kazakh LLM on meta, foundational models like LAMA.

01:55We have E-Lightning and DeepSeek and it's open source.

01:58Beyond the first Kazakh large language model,

02:01should we expect any other game changers on the horizon?

02:04LLM AI, International AI Center, is like a big funnel

02:08starting from the general public and going through the kids, students,

02:13startups, big techs and the best solutions will be embedded into the economy sector.

02:20It's a big center of competence, 20 plus thousand square meters building,

02:25eight floors.

02:27On the second and third floor, we will launch two more education.

02:30School kids of age of 12 to 18 will cover 11 areas,

02:35generative AI, robotics, 3D modeling, film making, music making.

02:41So the creative industry also will be covered.

02:44On the fourth and fifth floor, we'll be having Tomorrow School,

02:48launching it together with Nicolas Adirac, a famous entrepreneur from France.

02:53On the sixth floor, we will have AI Campus for startups

02:58with our acceleration programs.

03:01We are exclusive partner of Google for startups.

03:03We have acceleration program with Draper University,

03:07StarTex from Stanford,

03:09Alchemist B2B Accelerator.

03:11We have our own homemade accelerator program,

03:15AIpreneurs, where people come as individuals.

03:18We give them data sets, GPUs.

03:22We give large language models and they graduate as startups.

03:26So it will be like the factory of startups.

03:29On the seventh floor, we'll have big tech offices,

03:33R&D labs, AI centers.

03:35Mr. Deputy Prime Minister, thank you so much.

03:37Thank you.

03:38My pleasure.

03:41Kazakhstan is positioning itself as Central Asia's gateway to global tech,

03:45connecting startups, investors and policymakers

03:48under one roof in Astana.

03:50Over 20,000 innovators, investors and startups gathered in Astana

03:56for the three-day Digital Bridge Forum,

03:59Central Asia's largest tech event.

04:01Startups secured tens of thousands of euros in funding

04:04as Kazakhstan showcased its growing digital and AI ambitions.

04:08My goal was to create a certain platform,

04:10a collaborative environment where, in fact,

04:13there are opportunities, businesses,

04:15companies, big tech companies, ventures.

04:19Among the startups driving this new wave is Neurobox,

04:22a compact supercomputer that can replace entire departments

04:25in finance and government with its multimodal AI agents.

04:30Running fully offline, it performs 180 trillion operations per second,

04:34building AI models without cloud access.

04:38In this year's forum, President Tokayev announced plans

04:57to turn digital bridge into an AI bridge,

04:59linking Kazakhstan's technological ambitions

05:01with the global AI future.

05:03By 2029, Kazakhstan wants to see 100 new startups every year

05:10and raise AI exports to more than 4 billion euros.

05:14Here to assess the effectiveness of the country's AI strategy

05:17is a venture investor, Marat Tolubay, CEO of Aktivat Venture Capital.

05:23Mr. Tolubay, welcome.

05:25So my first question is, what would convince investors

05:28watching us today to take a closer look

05:30at Kazakhstan's AI ecosystem?

05:32The venture market, in general, of all our region,

05:35Central Asia and Kavkaz, has developed in recent years

05:37with a very large time, and Kazakhstan is the leader

05:41on this market.

05:43For example, in 2024, there were startups

05:47in all the region, more than 100 million dollars.

05:50And out of them, 70 million dollars

05:52were invested in Kazakhstan, in Kazakhstan's startups.

05:55Now we have around 20-25 specialised funds,

06:02companies, which only invest in startups.

06:04There are around 1,5 thousand startups.

06:07This market is developing very powerful.

06:10Kazakhstan's startup Hicksfield became the first one

06:13and earned the value of more than 1 billion dollars in the US.

06:16But there are a number of other Kazakhstan's startups,

06:19which came to the international market.

06:21Do Kazakh startups attract any international co-investors,

06:26or are they still largely dependent on domestic capital?

06:29We have a standard scheme that startup,

06:31who showed good results on the local market,

06:34they get investment from Kazakhstan's investors

06:37and go to the international market.

06:39But there are already a number of startups,

06:42which have already received investment from foreign investors.

06:46The same Hicksfield,

06:47the same as I mentioned, Leaping AI, Alma,

06:50are these startups, which have received investment from American investors.

06:54And from our portfolio, startup Garderob,

06:58he received investment from the European Fund.

07:02The main advantage of the kazakhsfield startups

07:05is that the kazakhsfield startups with AI,

07:09that the kazakhsfield startups are now very low-earned.

07:12At the stage of the pre-seed,

07:14the kazakhsfield startups cost 1,2 million dollars in the US

07:18and raise around 200-300 thousand dollars.

07:22In the meantime, the European startups,

07:24they cost 5 and more than 5 million dollars,

07:27in the US, 7-8 million dollars.

07:30And, of course, they raise 500,000, 1,000,000, and so on.

07:35We have very talented people who can do exactly the same startups,

07:41but they cost cheaper,

07:43and now it's very good to invest in them

07:46until they become a kind of people.

07:49Thank you so much for your insights.

07:50Thank you.

07:53That's all for now.

07:54See you in the next episode of EastWestConnect.

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