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In Kazakhstan, the Qazaq Tili Endowment has received 824 million tenge to support the Kazakh language. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was briefed on the contributions at a meeting. Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, chair of the Qazaq Tili society, spoke about its work with Disney, Pixar and Sony (profit.kz).
14 billion text tokens collected for AI
The society works with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. To help artificial intelligence work with Kazakh, it has collected 14 billion text tokens and 12 thousand hours of audio recordings.
Tokens are pieces of text that a language model processes. Read more about this dataset in our article on the Kazakh language corpus.
Tokayev proposed using AI to teach Kazakh
At the meeting, the president proposed making greater use of artificial intelligence to teach Kazakh. Translating scientific literature was another area he suggested.
The focus is on two practical tasks: helping people learn the language and translating scientific literature.
Cinemas screened 13 films in Kazakh
Over three years, 13 Hollywood films dubbed in Kazakh were released in cinemas across Kazakhstan. Kenzhekhanuly spoke about the society’s work with Disney, Pixar and Sony.
The Qazaq Tili Endowment has received 824 million tenge. The money is intended to support the Kazakh language.
