The IT industry is growing steadily. The number of IT companies in the country has exceeded 18 thousand, with a growth of 16% over the past three years. The development of the Astana Hub international technology park, which unites more than 1,700 participants, has been an important driver. The total income of residents has reached 1.2 trillion tenge, and export revenues have exceeded 140 billion tenge.

Regional IT hubs have become a key element of the innovation ecosystem. There are already 19 of them in Kazakhstan. In addition, foreign platforms have been opened in Saudi Arabia, the USA, the UK, Dubai and China.

Astana Hub, together with international partners, is developing a startup ecosystem. Within the framework of the AI'Preneurs and Silk Way Accelerator (in partnership with Google) programs, Kazakhstani projects are entering global markets. Thanks to cooperation with AlchemistX, Draper University and Silkroad Innovation Hub, more than 40 startups have been accelerated in Silicon Valley. By 2026, Kazakhstan aims to achieve $1 billion in IT services exports.

The Tech Orda program envisages training 100,000 IT specialists by 2025. Online and offline programs are being conducted - Tomorrow School, AI'Preneurs, Decentrathon 2.0, as well as specialized courses: AI-People Bootcamp and AI Quest 1.0.

Also, for the first time in Central Eurasia, the AI Qyzmet program was launched, which trains civil servants in AI skills. It aims to increase the efficiency of public service by introducing digital tools into work processes.

"2024-2025 was a period of important initiatives in the field of AI. The concept until 2029 has been approved, a strategy for the development of AI and digital transformation, as well as a draft law on artificial intelligence are being developed," said Zhaslan Madiev.

Work is underway to launch the international Alem.AI artificial intelligence center, which will be a platform for training specialists and scientific research.

Recently, the largest language model in the Kazakh language, AlemLLM, became publicly available. It can be used by startups, universities, companies, and international platforms.

In July, the first alem.cloud supercomputing cluster in Central Asia was launched. It is available to businesses and researchers to develop their AI solutions.