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Kazakhstan’s president says Kazakh use in AI systems has grown rapidly over the past three years, and wants a national digital database to support the language’s place in science and technology.
Why it mattersKassym-Jomart Tokayev cited OpenAI research for the AI-language claim and said Yandex had recorded a 30% rise in users of one of its popular products in Kazakh. That is a product-specific figure, not a measure of all Kazakh-language technology use. The proposed database would cover books, periodicals, audio and video held by archives and libraries. Turning that cultural ambition into useful material for AI will take more than putting files online, but at least the proposed next step is concrete.
Discuss: Should governments prioritise building national-language datasets for AI, even when the payoff may take years to measure?
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