Teaching Kazakh to AI: the Qazaq Tili society shows Tokayev a 14-billion-token text corpus

On 9 November, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, head of the International Qazaq Tili Society. The society said it works in three areas: improving how Kazakh is taught, increasing Kazakh-language digital content, and extending the language's use in new technologies.

Work with OpenAI has produced a text corpus of 14 billion tokens and 12,000 hours of audio recordings. Over the past three years, 13 popular Disney, Pixar and Sony films have been released in cinemas with Kazakh dubbing.

The President was also briefed on the Qazaq Tili Endowment, whose funds have reached 824 million tenge. Tokayev praised the society's work, wished it success and said artificial intelligence should be used to the full in teaching the state language and translating scientific literature.