YandexGPT
Family of large language models built by the Russian internet company Yandex.
On 8 October 2026 Ukraine disabled Yandex's Sasovo data centre, which Al Jazeera said holds two of the company's three AI training supercomputers, the machines behind models such as YandexGPT.
Last refreshed: 12 October 2026
Timeline for YandexGPT
Mentioned in: Ukraine strikes Yandex AI data centres
Russia-Ukraine War 2026Background
YandexGPT is a family of large language models built by Yandex, the Russian internet company. Yandex unveiled it on 17 May 2023 and built it into its voice assistant, Alice. YandexGPT 2 followed in September 2023 and YandexGPT 4 in October 2024, offered to businesses through Yandex Cloud. Yandex later folded the models into its Alice AI family.
The war reached YandexGPT on 8 October 2026, when a Ukrainian strike disabled the Sasovo data centre. Al Jazeera said the site holds two of the three machines on which Yandex trains its models; Yandex has not said whether YandexGPT training was affected. Zelenskyy called the strikes a mirror response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres.
The strike widened Kyiv's target list from fuel to computing power, and onto a company whose services millions of Russian civilians use.