Kazakhstan expands NVIDIA AI infrastructure and explores robotaxis
According to NVIDIA Blog, Firebird has secured a U.S. export license for 45,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs and is building its first phase in Kazakhstan with Kazakhtelecom. The project is under construction and targets commercial launch in the third quarter of 2027; a planned second phase could bring Firebird’s potential capacity in the country to approximately 500 megawatts. Kazakhtelecom has deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 and 480 NVIDIA B300 GPUs. NVIDIA also announced an investment in Kazakhstan-founded startup Higgsfield AI. Separately, inDrive and Pony.ai are assessing the feasibility of bringing Pony.ai’s seventh-generation robotaxis to the inDrive app in Astana, using NVIDIA infrastructure; deployment has not been confirmed.
Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment.
The shift is visible across the full AI stack — from infrastructure to models to applications.
The announcements below — coinciding with a visit to Astana by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang — point to the nation’s increasing supply of accelerated computing, along with its growing demand for what comes next.
On Friday, Oct. 23, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang visited Astana, meeting with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Akorda Presidential Palace and joining Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev — Kazakhstan’s minister of AI and digital development — for a public fireside chat at the Alem.AI program.
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Jensen Huang and Kazakhstan’s AI Minister Speak at Alem.AI
In their fireside chat at Alem.AI, Kazakhstan’s international center for artificial intelligence, Madiyev and Huang discussed the country’s push to become an AI nation — building the energy and computing infrastructure to support homegrown AI and applying it across the economy.
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