{"id":15258,"date":"2024-07-16T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/yandexs-international-arm-to-focus-on-ai-following-russian-business-sale\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:55:27","slug":"yandexs-international-arm-to-focus-on-ai-following-russian-business-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/yandexs-international-arm-to-focus-on-ai-following-russian-business-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Yandex&#8217;s International Arm to Focus on AI Following Russian Business Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yandex&#8217;s international division will develop a cloud platform for AI after separating from its Russian business in a $5.4 billion deal. This was announced by Yandex co-founder and former CEO Arkady Volozh to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/deals\/former-yandex-chief-volozh-returns-with-ai-infrastructure-venture-after-russia-2024-07-16\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Yandex&#8217;s Dutch parent company, Yandex NV (YNV), sold its Russian assets for $2.8 billion and 162.5 million of its own Class A shares as part of the second phase of the deal. <\/p>\n<p>This agreement resolved the issue of foreign ownership of Yandex and freed YNV\u2014now renamed Nebius Group\u2014from Russian influence. <\/p>\n<p>The new firm, headquartered in Amsterdam, is led by Volozh. He noted that the company aims to become a leading European provider of infrastructure for AI developers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Yandex co-founder added that Nebius specializes in &#8220;the ability to eliminate fundamental bottlenecks in artificial intelligence.&#8221; He describes the firm&#8217;s business model as &#8220;T2T,&#8221; or &#8220;technology for technologists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company owns a data center in Finland and is developing its own hardware. Over the next year, it plans to triple the data center&#8217;s capacity. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Infrastructure is a very capital-intensive game. We are looking at billions of dollars in investments, some of which will be financed from personal funds, some from external sources (debt or equity),&#8221; said Volozh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters noted that Nebius collaborates with Nvidia and has access to its graphics processors. The former Yandex CEO mentioned that trading of the company&#8217;s shares on Nasdaq is expected to resume in September.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the firm planned the sale of its Russian business.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the company planned to launch driverless taxis in Moscow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yandex&#8217;s international division will develop a cloud platform for AI after separating from its Russian business in a $5.4 billion deal. This was announced by Yandex co-founder and former CEO Arkady Volozh to Reuters. According to media reports, Yandex&#8217;s Dutch parent company, Yandex NV (YNV), sold its Russian assets for $2.8 billion and 162.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,86],"class_list":["post-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-yandex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}