Translated with AI from the Russian original.

Alice AI already powers the "Alice AI" neural network, and now business representatives will be able to use this generative model for their tasks and create their own AI applications based on it.

As Yandex B2B Tech reported, compared to the previous generation of neural networks, the Alice AI LLM model is more versatile for business: it has become smarter and works better in dialogue mode. It is capable of explaining complex things in simple language, taking into account the specifics of the business, internal documents, and instructions.

Alice AI LLM is already available on the Yandex AI Studio platform, and Alice AI ART for images will soon be available on it as well. Yandex stated:

The cost of using Alice AI may be significantly lower than that of open-source neural networks, thanks to the Russian language-optimized text tokenization. One token in Alice AI fits approximately 4-5 Cyrillic characters, while in open-source models, it's approximately 2-3 characters. Thus, the final cost of using Alice AI will be 1.5-2 times lower than open-source models with the same pricing.

In addition, user requests to the neural network and the model's responses are now priced differently - tokens "input" to the neural network cost four times less than "output" tokens.

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