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2025: Yandex transferred unmanned vehicles to Yandex B2B Tech
The direction of the unmanned transport "" Yandex became independent and transferred to the Yandex B2B Tech division. This was reported in the Russian company on February 27, 2025.
The head of the autonomous transport direction of Yandex has been appointed Sergei Melnik, who has been working at the company since 2008. During his career at Yandex, Melnik headed the development of the search engine, robot participated in the creation of the voice assistant infrastructure "" and Alice led the Station team. Under his leadership, this direction has grown into a large-scale business, which in 2022 reached self-sufficiency and remains profitable in and against Russia the CIS background of increased investment in the development of a virtual assistant, Yandex noted.
As explained in the company, promoting autonomous transport as a separate line of business, Yandex will be able to accelerate the introduction of technologies and expand their application areas. By February 2025, the company's developments went beyond technological experiments: previously, Yandex autonomous trucks had already begun to carry out commercial transportation on public roads, and robo-delivery was actively operating in several Russian cities. The inclusion in the Yandex B2B Tech structure will allow the team to increase the level of integration of autonomous transport with other Yandex business solutions, the company added.
Yandex is confident that autonomous cargo transportation will be in demand by postal and courier services, marketplaces and logistics companies that are already facing a serious shortage of drivers. The demand for delivery of the "last mile" (the final stage of delivery) by robots is growing, and against the background of a drop in the cost of such delivery, it is already comparable to the cost of courier delivery and will drop below this cost by the end of the year, they predict there.[1]
2024: Unit Launch
On November 15, 2024, Yandex created a new structural unit Yandex B2B Tech to consolidate corporate digital solutions. The direction will combine the company's existing products and develop new tools for business customers.
According to the press service of Yandex, by 2028 the volume of the corporate technological solutions market will increase from ₽240 billion to ₽510 billion with a CAGR of 21%. The new division plans to take a significant share of this segment.
Within the framework of the new direction, Yandex offers six main categories of products:
- Infrastructure solutions: Compute Cloud computing platform, BareMetal physical server service, Object Storage cloud storage, SmartCaptcha security suite and Security Deck.
- Data management systems: distributed database YDB, migration tools Data Transfer, metadata management platforms.
- Means of communication: corporate mail and messenger, cloud storage "Disk," video conferencing service "Telemost," office suite "Documents," task management system "Tracker."
- Artificial intelligence technologies: YandexGPT language model, YandexART generation system, SpeechKit speech technology complex, DataSphere analytical platform.
- Developer toolkit: Code Assistant AI, SourceCraft platform, Kubernetes orchestration system.
- Analytical tools: DataLens data visualization.
Enterprise customers will have access to services through cloud solutions or on their own servers. The local location format is being pioneered by the company for organizations requiring internal infrastructure storage. At the first stage, YDB, YandexGPT, SpeechKit and DataLens are available with plans to expand the list of products.[2]
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