Yandex has successfully passed an independent external audit and received an international certificate of compliance with the ISO/IEC 42001 standard. This is the first specialized confirmation in the world for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS), covering the company's key generative models, including those powering the virtual assistant 'Alice'.

What exactly is certified

The audit covered three main areas of Yandex's AI ecosystem, which underwent verification by international experts:

  • YandexGPT — a family of large language models (LLM) for text generation, summarization, and dialogue.
  • YandexART — diffusion neural networks for creating and editing images.
  • Yandex VLM — multimodal models capable of simultaneously processing text, images, and audio.

The certification process covered the full development lifecycle: from the collection and preprocessing of training data to the integration of APIs into end products.

How Yandex ensures security

The ISO/IEC 42001 standard requires strict measures for data protection and ethics. The following mechanisms are implemented in Yandex's infrastructure:

  • Personal data protection: Full de-identification and isolation of user queries to minimize leakage risks.
  • "Hallucination" control: Automated algorithms for monitoring and filtering unreliable information.
  • Ethical filters: A multi-level system for blocking toxic and discriminatory content at the output stage.
  • Development management: Implementation of responsible development regulations and systematic staff training in R&D departments.

Significance for the market and business

Receiving the certificate places Yandex alongside a limited number of global technology leaders. For the corporate sector (B2B), this is critical: clients from highly regulated industries — fintech, medicine, industry — require security guarantees when integrating neural networks into their processes. Certification minimizes legal and operational risks, confirming the maturity of the company's processes and the traceability of AI decisions.