哈萨克斯坦扩建英伟达AI基础设施并评估无人出租车
据NVIDIA博客报道，Firebird已取得4.5万块NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPU的美国出口许可，并正与Kazakhtelecom在哈萨克斯坦建设首期项目。该项目仍在施工中，目标于2027年第三季度投入商业运营；规划中的第二期项目可能使Firebird在当地的潜在容量达到约500兆瓦。Kazakhtelecom已部署400块NVIDIA H200和480块NVIDIA B300 GPU。NVIDIA还宣布投资哈萨克斯坦本土初创公司Higgsfield AI。此外，inDrive与Pony.ai正评估在阿斯塔纳将Pony.ai第七代无人出租车接入inDrive应用并使用NVIDIA基础设施的可行性，部署尚未得到确认。
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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