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Yandex, Uber spin off self-driving vehicles business from joint venture
2020-09-06 11:55:34| Green Car Congress
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Yandex launches first smartphone, the Yandex.Phone
2018-12-06 08:40:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Russian internet search engine Yandex has launched its first smartphone, the Yandex.Phone. Yandex.Phone is powered by Yandex's intelligent digital assistant, Alice, and entirely integrated into the Yandex ecosystem of apps and services right out of the box.
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Yandex launches smart speaker with Alice assistant
2018-05-29 12:46:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Russian internet search engine Yandex has unveiled Yandex.Station, the first smart speaker designed for the Russian market and Yandex's first hardware product. The Yandex.Station is equipped with Yandex's Russian-speaking intelligent assistant, Alice, first launched last year and gradually rolling out across Yandex services. Alice has been available on mobile since launch in October 2017 and will soon arrive for the car with Yandex's connected car platform.
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Yandex, Sberbank agree to set up Yandex.Market e-commerce joint venture
2017-12-14 15:46:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Russian internet search engine Yandex has concluded an agreement with Sberbank on the launch of a joint venture based on the Yandex.Market platform. Under it Sberbank will subscribe for new shares in Yandex.Market for RUB 30 billion, valuing it at RUB 60 billion on a post-money basis, before taking into account any potential future synergies. The two partners will own equal stakes in the company, with 10 percent of the shares to be issued to an equity incentive foundation and allocated for future grants of equity awards to management and employees of Yandex.Market.
Yandex launches conversational intelligent assistant
2017-10-10 11:47:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Russian internet search engine Yandex has launched new product Alice, a conversational intelligent assistant that is not restricted to a set of predefined scenarios. Alice integrates multiple services to help users efficiently accomplish tasks such as finding information online, recommending places to eat, providing weather forecasts, and supplying directions. Using deep neural networks trained on massive datasets, Alice allows users to interact like they would with another person, with advanced understanding of context.
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