Alexey Gusakov has been appointed Technical Director of the Yandex Search and Advertising Technologies business group, which also includes Alice and Smart Devices, Yandex Browser, Yandex Maps and the generative model development team. This is stated in the company's message.
Previously, he served as the technical director of Yandex Search. In his new role, A.Gusakov will be responsible for implementing a unified technology strategy and coordinating the development of the business group, as well as for creating technologies for the entire Yandex.
A.Gusakov in Yandex since 2015. In 2016, he developed the first neural network for search, which became the basis of the Palekh search algorithm. He led Alice's team and coordinated the development of Yandex voice technologies, which are now used, among other things, for video translation in the browser. Under his leadership, Yandex released the YandexGPT family of large language models and the YandexART diffusion neural network, on the basis of which Alice, Masterpiece, Yandex Direct, Market and other Yandex services work.
ICPAO Yandex is the parent company of Yandex, its main owner is the Consortium. The first one." The ticker of the Yandex ICPAO on the Moscow Stock Exchange is YDEX.
Yandex's adjusted net profit for 2024 under IFRS increased by 94% to RUB 100.9 billion from RUB 52.1 billion a year earlier. Net profit fell by 79% to 11.5 billion rubles from 55.6 billion rubles. Revenue increased by 37% to RUB 1.09 trillion from RUB 798.1 billion, adjusted EBITDA increased by 56% to RUB 188.6 billion from RUB 120.8 billion.
