Nvidia CEO visits Kazakhstan as Firebird secures export licence for 45,000 GPUs
What happened
On 23 October 2026, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang visited Astana, the Kazakh capital, meeting President Tokayev and holding talks with AI minister Madiyev, with both sides announcing an expansion of AI computing capacity. It was previously reported that Nvidia had granted Kazakh company Firebird an export licence for 45,000 GPUs. Huang has now completed the visit, and details of the cooperation have yet to be disclosed.
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- NVIDIA BlogKazakhstan Expands Compute for Its AI Future
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.
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