Yandex launches Alice AI for Business, an agentic assistant for Yandex 360
Yandex
Yandex shipped Alice AI for Business, an assistant that executes multi-step agentic tasks and connects to third-party services. It is available to all Yandex 360 customers (over 185,000 organizations) with a three-month free trial, integrates Mail, Disk, Calendar, Tracker and Wiki natively plus Bitrix24, SPARK, amoCRM and 1C via plugins, and a customizable on-prem or hybrid version for Yandex Cloud is planned.
Why it matters
First mass-market agentic AI assistant for Russian businesses, moving Yandex from consumer chatbot to enterprise workflow automation.
Importance: 3/5
Major product launch bringing agentic AI to 185k+ Russian organizations