Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has officially launched Kazakhstan’s new national supercomputer, a landmark development that significantly advances the country’s digital transformation agenda.
The cutting-edge supercomputing cluster, powered by NVIDIA H200 graphics processors, delivers an extraordinary computing performance of up to two exaflops using FP8 precision, The Caspian Post reports via Kazakh media.
This makes it the most powerful supercomputer in Central Asia. The inauguration ceremony was held at the Alemcloud National Supercomputing Center, situated within a newly established data center managed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation, and Aerospace Industry, in collaboration with international partners.
President Tokayev emphasized the supercomputer’s critical role in accelerating digitalization across Kazakhstan’s key sectors. Its high-performance computing resources will be available to startups focused on neural network technologies, as well as to universities, research institutes, and various public and private organizations.
During the visit, the president was introduced to a variety of domestically developed AI innovations spanning healthcare, education, governance, and industry.
Among the highlighted projects was SmartCity Astana, a digital twin initiative designed to improve urban life by integrating over 100,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras aimed at risk detection and enhancing emergency response. This project is fully funded by private sector partners.
Another key innovation is AlemLLM, a Kazakh-language large language model optimized for local applications. It boasts superior accuracy compared to similar systems and is designed for use across multiple industries.
In education, the AI Kitap platform offers personalized, adaptive digital textbooks tailored to individual student’s knowledge levels, progress, and learning preferences.
Baspana Hub was showcased as a comprehensive digital ecosystem for housing and related services, including real estate transactions, public service access, renovation requests, and materials procurement. Remarkably, this project was developed without external funding.
The logistics startup Biny.co, a top participant in the Google for Startups - Silkway Accelerator, counts major clients such as QazPost, Coca-Cola, Gorilla Asia, and Zeta Trade.
Another notable venture, Surfaice.pro, founded by Kazakh entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and operating in five US states, provides innovative construction technologies. It has secured $1.5 million in funding from Big Sky Capital and Shadow Ventures.
In the sports and health domain, the OlympIQ platform offers AI-driven sports data management and analytics.
An advanced AI-powered early wildfire detection system was demonstrated, capable of significantly reducing response times through real-time video analytics. The system is currently deployed in Burabay National Park and the Yertis Ormany forest reserve.
Additional AI tools include an automated meeting transcription agent that converts government meeting audio into written records, improving administrative efficiency, and the AI Therapist, which automatically generates medical records from voice inputs and provides preliminary diagnoses and treatment recommendations.
Finally, a national AI project is underway to centralize radiological data, aiming to facilitate earlier cancer detection and diagnosis, underscoring Kazakhstan’s commitment to advancing health technologies.
