Kazakhstan to Establish Artificial Intelligence Institute

Kazakhstan is planning to establish an AI Institute to support the integration of artificial intelligence into the education system.

The institute will focus on methodological, research, ethical, educational, and software-related aspects, according to the Kazakh Prime Minister’s response to a parliamentary inquiry, The Caspian Post reports citing Kazinform.

Special training courses are underway to raise teachers’ digital literacy. Some 160,000 teachers passed courses on the AI introduction into the educational system (90,000 in 2024, 70,000 more in 2025). The Enlightenment and Digital Education, Innovations and Aerospace Industry Ministries are developing a pilot project to teach computer programming basics in 180 schools nationwide since January this year, the Prime Minister said.

He also added since last July 16, some 180 teachers and 120 trainers of the Orleu national career enhancement center passed special AI and Game Development training at the grounds of the nFactorial and Omnium IT schools.

In addition, the Altynssarin National Education Academy will develop new rules and recommendations to prevent the potential negative impact of the AI tools. Besides, the Academy plans to open the AI Institute for methodological, research, ethical, educational and software maintenance of AI introduction into the educational system.

As written before, Meta Platforms is reportedly in talks to invest over $10 billion in Scale AI, potentially marking its largest external investment in artificial intelligence to date.