MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/. Russian IT major Yandex will develop an alternative to ChatGPT, a text-based neural network, the company's press service said on Wednesday.

"Yandex will develop YaLM 2.0, its own version of the ChatGPT network," the company said. It will be integrated in its search engine, home assistant, and other services. The development timeframe for the service is unknown.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, which can generate texts, answer questions, and write code.