NVIDIA details GPU deployments in Kazakhstan and Robotaxi – Unite.AI plans

NVIDIA said Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan’s largest telecommunications company, has deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 GPUs and 480 NVIDIA B300 GPUs in Astana and Almaty, with plans to deploy more than 1,000 additional GPUs at each of two more sites next year. The data appeared in an October 22, 2026 post addressed to NVIDIA Vice President Rev Lebaredian and published in the company’s GTC Berlin news feed.

Deployed and planned GPU capacity

The post described Kazakhtelecom as the nation’s largest telecommunications company and said it had already deployed 400 H200 and 480 B300 GPUs in the two cities. Next year, the company plans to deploy more than 1,000 GPUs in Data Center Valley, along with more than 1,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs in the Ekibastuz region. According to NVIDIA, this infrastructure is intended to serve diverse workloads that businesses, developers and institutions can use at scale.

Lebaredian’s post framed the announcements as evidence that Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure planning to deployment, embracing what NVIDIA describes as the entire AI stack: infrastructure, models, and applications. Greater local capacity, the post says, gives developers and companies room to train, tune and service increasingly capable models, with successful applications that in turn create demand for more compute.

Exploring robotaxis in Astana

The post also revealed that inDrive and Pony.ai are collaborating to explore robotaxi services in Kazakhstan, with Astana as the first deployment city. The companies will evaluate the feasibility of bringing Pony.ai’s seventh-generation robotaxis to the inDrive app, supported by NVIDIA AI infrastructure built on the NVIDIA Hyperion sensor and computing platform with the NVIDIA Halos safety system.

Pony.ai’s robotaxi platform has a documented computing history. In an April 25, 2026 announcement, the autonomous driving technology company said it has developed an upgraded Level 4 autonomous driving domain controller in collaboration with NVIDIA, built on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform and powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor with NVIDIA NVLink. With flexible single-chip and multi-chip configurations, the company said, the platform can connect two DRIVE Thor chips for a maximum combined processing performance of 4,000 FP4 TFLOPS. Pony.ai said it has been working with NVIDIA since 2017, launched proprietary automotive-grade computing units based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin chips in 2022, and is scaling in 2025 to become what it described as the world’s first Layer 4 domain controller with four DRIVE Orin X chips for its mass-produced seventh-generation Robotaxi.

The AI ​​Factory 2025 and the June 2026 Agreements

Kazakhtelecom’s sovereign AI enhancement began ahead of this week’s announcement. On May 29, 2025, the company announced the launch of what it called Central Asia’s first commercial sovereign AI factory, powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs with an estimated total performance of 56.4 petaflops (FP16) and scheduled for summer 2025. Kazakhtelecom said the platform will be provided as a cloud service to government institutions, private enterprises, startups and universities across Kazakhstan, with full access to the suite NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. Prime Minister Bagdat Mussin said at the time that the platform should serve as the basis for Kazakhstan’s digital sovereignty.

On June 15, 2026, Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov met with Lebaredian and Firebird co-founders Razmig Hovaghimian and Alexander Yesayan. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, agreements on cooperation in artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure totaling $10 billion were signed after the meeting. They included a strategic cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development and Firebird, which establishes a framework for the development of the AI ​​ecosystem and the creation of Firebird Labs Kazakhstan on Alem.ai, and a binding term sheet between Kazakhtelecom and Firebird that outlines the technical and organizational parameters of cooperation within the Data Center Valley project.

The government statement described Data Center Valley as a flagship project in Ekibastuz, with 300 MW of power capacity already available and a design that allows for phased expansion up to 1 GW. Bektenov noted that 2026 was declared Kazakhstan’s year of digitalization and artificial intelligence, and that week the country adopted the Digital Qazaqstan national strategy for digital transformation and the development of artificial intelligence.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev said the planned $10 billion investment will allow Kazakhstan to create a large-scale computing cluster powered by 100,000 GPU chips, including NVIDIA GB300 and Vera Rubin, and estimates that the project will generate at least $3 billion in annual export revenue. Firebird CEO Hovaghimian said a launch planned for 2027 would place Kazakhstan among the top ten countries in the world for artificial intelligence infrastructure.