NVIDIA says Kazakhstan is expanding AI computing capacity
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NVIDIA says Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment, with more accelerated computing capacity and work on Kazakh-language models. During a visit to Astana, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and joined Zhaslan Madiyev, the country’s deputy prime minister and minister of AI and digital development, for a public discussion.
NVIDIA announced an investment in Higgsfield AI, a startup founded in Kazakhstan. The company also said Firebird signed an investment agreement with the Kazakh government and secured a U.S. export license for 45,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. The project’s first phase is under construction with Kazakhtelecom at Data Center Valley and is targeted for commercial launch in the third quarter of 2027.
Why it matters · editorial interpretation
The announcements link Kazakhstan’s expansion of computing capacity to investment, GPU exports and a data center targeted for commercial launch. Because the information comes from NVIDIA, it should be read as the company’s account of progress in the local ecosystem.
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