Business materials for 24 April 2025

Yandex B2B Tech, the corporate division of Yandex, has launched open-source visual-generative models (VLM) on its proprietary ML platform that simultaneously analyze images and text. With VLM models such as Deepseek VL2 Tiny and Gemma3 27B, companies will be able to create product descriptions from photos and quickly find the information they need in documents.

Astra Group, together with Axiom JDK and Haulmont, has released the first version of the independent Russian OpenIDE development environment. This is a free open source tool without proprietary components, designed for professional Java programmers and ready for use in real projects.

New tools have become available in Yandex Direct for brand promotion. Advertisers can launch advertising campaigns in video content that users watch on smart TVs.