Yandex

Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. The company's goal is to help consumers and businesses better navigate the online and offline world. Since 1997, Yandex has delivered world-class, locally relevant search and information services. Additionally, Yandex has developed market-leading on-demand transportation services, navigation products, and other mobile applications for millions of consumers across the globe. Yandex, which has 17 offices worldwide (as of Sept. 2017), has been listed on the NASDAQ since 2011.

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From education to social and environmental responsibility: How Yandex pushed its sustainability agenda in 2021

July 20, 2022

Yandex publishes today its annual Sustainability Progress Report covering the company’s environmental, social and corporate governance results in 2021 and outlining key accomplishments within each of the sustainability priority areas. Yandex presented its full sustainability agenda in 2020. A number of streams, for example, cybersecurity, the quality of services and employee wellbeing, are closely aligned …

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Yandex publishes YaLM 100B, the largest GPT-like neural network in open source

June 27, 2022

Yandex has published YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. It’s the largest GPT-like model in the public domain. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world. YaLM 100B contains 100 billion parameters, more than any GPT-like model available in open-source under a license that …

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Yandex announces settlement of anti-monopoly claims

January 19, 2022

Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that it has reached a settlement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) and a consortium of Russian Internet companies in connection with an antitrust claim brought against Yandex. The claim related …

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Yandex supercomputers top entries from Russia and Eastern Europe among world’s most powerful computing systems

November 25, 2021

Yandex’s most powerful supercomputer ranks 19th in the global TOP500, showing the best results for high-performance computing systems in Russia and Eastern Europe. Named after one of the greatest machine learning theorists, Alexey Chervonenkis, Yandex’s fastest supercomputer has 199 nodes and produces 21.53 petaflops, that is, 21.53 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. The other two Yandex TOP500 entries, …

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Yandex, Cambridge and Oxford universities team up to launch international machine learning competition

July 26, 2021

Yandex, in collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge Universities and as part of the NeurIPS conference on machine learning, is launching the global ‘Shifts Challenge’, a three-pronged competition track designed to tackle the problem of distributional shift in ML that features the largest autonomous vehicle (AV) dataset in the industry to date. This dataset contains 600,000 scenes (or more than 1,600 hours …

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‘The Sound of Stars:’ Yandex Music uses algorithms to turn cosmic bodies into art

April 12, 2021

Yandex Music announces today The Sound of Stars, a playlist of audio compositions celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space.  To create the playlist, the Yandex Music team used algorithms to convert the physical properties of stars, pulsars and galaxies into music, with each of the nine tracks dedicated to a …

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Yandex introduces Vega, its latest intelligent search update

January 15, 2020

Since we started our search engine in 1997, we’ve sought to connect people with the information most relevant to them.  Over the years, we’ve updated Yandex Search with smart features and more informative results, making it as easy as possible for our users to navigate the mass of information that is the internet.  Today, we’re …

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Yandex demonstrates self-driving car technologies on the streets of Las Vegas during CES 2019

February 16, 2019

Yandex, the Russian Internet giant that develops intelligent products and services powered by machine learning, is operating a self-driving car in Las Vegas with just a safety engineer in the front passenger seat (NVO Mode).  The company will be providing demonstration rides of its self-driving car on the public streets of Las Vegas starting from the Hard …

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Yandex’s new machine translation combines neural and statistical approaches for superior results

September 14, 2017

Today Yandex.Translate launched a hybrid machine translation system that combines neural and statistical approaches to machine translation to deliver our users an even higher quality translation that utilizes the complementary strengths of both translation models. The new system first translates users’ queries using both a statistical and a neural machine translation model.  Next, CatBoost, our gradient …

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Yandex reveals the early results of the ‘right to be forgotten’

March 26, 2016

Since Russia’s new law on the “right to be forgotten” took effect on January 1, 2016, Yandex — Russia’s most popular Internet search engine — has received 3,600 takedown requests from 1,348 people. The company says it has complied with 27 percent of these requests, rejecting the rest. Yandex says its high rejection rate has …

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Yandex.Direct introduces smart banner ads for personalized targeting

January 20, 2016

Internet, January 20, 2016 — Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of the largest European internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, has begun testing smart banner ads on its pay-per-click advertising platform, Yandex.Direct. Smart banners are display advertisements with dynamic content that is personalized for individual users based on their interests – coffee machine …

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Yandex announces Q3 2015 financial results

February 12, 2016

Moscow and Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015. Q3 2015 Financial Highlights(1)(2) Revenues of RUB 15.4 billion ($233.1 million), up 18% compared with Q3 2014 Ex-TAC revenues (excluding traffic acquisition …

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