Yandex.Lavka
The first topic of the conference is the relatively recently launched “Yandex.Shop”: a successful project
You can build such a convenient service,only if there are a lot of such warehouses. Maximum 8-10 minute walk. To build such a service, you need to have a huge audience - and we have one.
TigranKhudaverdyan,Managing Director of the Yandex Group of Companies
Chapter "Yandex.Shops" Ilya Krasilshchik explains: "»Shop» It’s structured as follows: you press a button, then the order actually comes to the «Store». Then they begin to assemble it: an order of 7 products is assembled in 70–80 seconds. We start looking for a courier, usually we choose those who sit on the “Bench”. We make sure that the time from person to courier is 7-10 minutes.”
The main problems of the “Lavka” relate to perishable products, in particular there were many questions regarding tomatoes, which quickly become unusable.
We still have another courier, he is not human. Now he works in Moscow in the Malaya Dmitrovka area. This is a rover. If everything works out, there will be more of them.
TigranKhudaverdyan,Managing Director of the Yandex Group of Companies
Rover
Yandex showed its rover, it delivers ordersfrom Lavka at one of the locations in Moscow, Skolkovo and Innopolis. “If nothing is done, then one half of humanity will deliver orders to the other,” - this is how Khudaverdyan explains why they are needed.
And here comes the rover's older brother - an unmanned vehicle. It will take several years for a robot to drive safer than a human.
Yandex first showed an unmanned vehicle inMay 2017. In Russia, cars are tested in Moscow and Innopolis. At the beginning of 2020, there were 110 vehicles in the company's fleet, with a total mileage of 3.21 million km.
The most difficult aspect is the variability onroad. No one follows the rules strictly, so real life cannot be programmed. This year they began to introduce variability of events into AI, this is what we call the human factor. We have made progress, but this is not the end. Now the car sees where the person is, where the pole is, where the truck is. Teaching a computer intuition is the most difficult thing.
Dmitry Polishchuk, head of self-driving cars at Yandex
Merger with Tinkoff
On October 16 it became known that Tinkoff Bankrefused a deal with Yandex. The negotiations were officially announced a little less than a month ago, and Yandex investors took this news positively. But the quotations of Tinkoff Bank began to fall, and this influenced the mood of Oleg Tinkov. But the main thing is that he was not ready to completely surrender control over the bank.
Khudaverdyan about the collapse of the deal with "Tinkoff": "We spent a lot of time, it cannot be said that we are not sorry."
We made a decision: we want to build the largest or one of the largest players in online trading. It is impossible to do this without having a complementary financial service in the ecosystem.
TigranKhudaverdyan Managing Director of the Yandex Group of Companies
"Yandex Market"
Now you can complete your purchase immediately inmarket. Yandex organizes a courier program so that your goods can be delivered immediately. Based on the platforms, the market predicts how the courier can optimally deliver the goods to a specific person. The company wants to become a retailer; it does not plan to store its own goods.
Logistics
Yandex told how it builds itsmega-logistics service. First there was a taxi delivery, then a cargo taxi, then couriers from other services were connected. And this is the new big business of the company.
The Yandex Go service begins testing a new service -"Delivery on a click",which will allow people to choose the exact time to receive goods from the online store.
After the user places an order inonline store, the goods will be delivered to the nearest Yandex.Lavka the next day, the company explains. From there, at any time, you can call a courier who will bring the goods to the right address in 15–20 minutes. This will allow users to control the time of receipt of the goods, and not wait for the courier "in the morning", the message says. In addition, thanks to integration with Yandex.Lavka, it will be possible to add products to any order.
At the testing stage, click delivery worksin about 100 Yandex.Lavki in Moscow and so far only for Yandex.Market, the company points out. This is due to the fact that "within one ecosystem it is easier to test how such integration will work." Yandex calls its goal to provide access to new delivery to partner stores in Moscow and other cities.
Business
An advertising subscription for business has appeared, throughwhich can automatically configure and target advertising. There, apparently, there will be something like a simple CRM system: it will be possible to keep records of clients and put a “Sign up” button on “Maps” and in “Search”, as well as on more than 40,000 advertising network sites.
You just need to set a budget, indicate information about the promotion, product or service and attach photos.
Yandex algorithms will set up the rest themselves: they will create advertisements in accordance with the specified parameters, place them and distribute the budget so that the advertisement brings in more clients.
Yandex Search
A new recommendation system has appeared for “Search” and “Zen”: everything will also be based on personal history, but now there is also a video.
Yandex.Fueling
Now in Yandex.Gas stations ”it will be possible to order food directly into the car. This is a service for delivering food and drinks to cars that have stopped at a gas station. The opportunity to order coffee and pastries has appeared in the Yandex.Zapravki, Yandex.Navigator and Yandex.Maps applications.
You can stop at a gas station, order coffee andpuff pastry, the gas station employee will bring it directly to the car. The time for everything is 5 minutes. The delivery itself will be free. Having stopped at a gas station, the driver goes into the application, finds the menu in the “Food at Gas Station” section, selects and pays for the dishes he likes, notes the required number of devices and indicates the “delivery address »—make and registration number of the vehicle. Before payment, the service informs the driver of the approximate time during which the delivery will be made. Yandex promises that the selected food and drinks will be delivered to the car within 5 minutes.
So far, the service operates at 100 BP and Neftmagistral petrol stations in Moscow and the Moscow region, but the company promises that it will later appear at other petrol stations.
Yandex.Station
Yandex has released a new, already the third smart column- "Max Station" with voice assistant, powerful three-band sound, 4K HDR video support and LED-screen. Earlier, Station and Station Mini entered the market
Sales will begin on December 1 and can be ordered today. Price - 17 thousand rubles. Now "Max" is presented in black and gray, in the new year there will be burgundy and dark blue.
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