On a cold November morning at Al-Farabi University in Almaty, students gathered in a drafty lecture hall, many still wrapped in their coats. The setting was

VEON's Beeline Kazakhstan has launched AI Tutor, an AI-powered learning assistant integrated into their Janymda super-app, which reaches 4.9 million monthly active users. The tool, developed in collaboration with QazCode, leverages the locally developed KazLLM language model to provide six gamified learning modules focused on Kazakh language education. The AI Tutor includes features like Make a Sentence, Word Game, Find a Mistake, Continue a Story, Fill in the Blank, and Text Questions. KazLLM was created through a partnership between Beeline Kazakhstan, QazCode, Nazarbayev University, and Astana Hub, with support from Kazakhstan's Ministry of Digital Development. This initiative builds on QazCode's previous success with Kaz-RoBERTA-conversational, a 2-billion parameter Kazakh language model, and represents VEON's commitment to using AI for educational accessibility in frontier markets.

Создан Центр компетенций по разработке и внедрению прикладных решений на основе Больших языковых моделей казахского языка (KazLLM).