On December 11, 2024, the Head of State ordered the implementation of the AI-Sana initiative, aimed at training all students in basic artificial intelligence skills.
The program currently consists of several stages: a basic level and three subsequent levels. Of the 650,000 students enrolled, approximately 540,000 have already completed basic courses in artificial intelligence management on the Astana Hub, Google, Coursera, and Huawei platforms. The next stage plans to select 100,000 students who will study entrepreneurship, programming, and the fundamentals of artificial intelligence (https://profit.kz/tags/ai/) and machine learning. This was announced by Dinara Shcheglova, Vice Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
As the speaker noted, 60,000 program graduates will move on to the second stage, during which they will structure their projects and develop business-oriented skills.
"By the end of this program, our students are expected to create 1,500 projects and ideas by the end of next year, which will then progress through the acceleration and pre-acceleration phases of the program at Alem.ai. Alem.ai was launched on October 1st of this year by the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development. Our goal is to transform the national education system into a large-scale student pipeline and provide Alem.ai with talent. We want our students to not only possess basic AI skills but also be able to effectively apply and manage them," noted Dinara Scheglova.
Students also undergo training on various platforms and receive relevant certificates. The Vice Minister also reported that, after mastering basic AI management skills, students from approximately 80 universities have already begun developing their own AI agents in collaboration with their universities.
As a reminder, the PROFIT Education Day conference, dedicated to information technology in education, will be held in Almaty on November 21.