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Kazakhstan's AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment, with Kazakhtelecom having already deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 and 480 NVIDIA B300 GPUs in Astana and Almaty.
- Next year, the company plans to deploy more than 1,000 GPUs in the Data Center Valley, along with more than 1,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs in the Ekibastuz region, serving diverse workloads with infrastructure that enterprises, developers and institutions can use at scale.
- The nation's AI-native companies are also building out their compute capacity and the applications that run atop them. inDrive and Pony.ai are collaborating to explore robotaxi services in Kazakhstan, with Astana as the first deployment city, assessing the feasibility of bringing Pony.ai's seventh-generation robotaxis to the inDrive app, supported by NVIDIA AI infrastructure built on the NVIDIA Hyperion sensor and compute platform with the NVIDIA Halos safety system.
- More local capacity gives developers and companies room to train, fine-tune and serve increasingly capable models, and successful applications create demand for more compute.
- Kazakhstan's AI opportunity isn't defined by GPU counts alone; connecting that infrastructure with developers, universities, startups and industries can turn accelerated computing into useful applications.
