Dushanbe, 24 October. The company zypl.ai, together with the Artificial Intelligence Council under Tajikistan's Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, is launching AI Nation, a free online learning platform on artificial intelligence in Tajik and Russian and the first initiative of an AI Innovation Hub being set up in partnership with NVIDIA, the company said in a press release.
The 24-lesson course explains what artificial intelligence is, how it learns from data and how language models work, and teaches users to set tasks and write prompts, compare answers and spot errors, and handle data safely. Participants will be introduced to the Soro LLM language model. The programme is aimed at schoolchildren from 14, students, teachers, entrepreneurs and professionals; no programming knowledge is needed, just a phone or computer with internet access.
At the end, participants solve their own problem with AI and pass a 30-question exam to receive a certificate; both the training and the certificate are free. The platform is based on the Area AI venue that zypl.ai opened in Dushanbe in January 2026.
What it means: Tajikistan now has a free mass programme teaching people to work with AI in their own language, with a certificate and no entry requirements.
Who benefits: Residents of Tajikistan, who get free training. zypl.ai and NVIDIA, who gain an audience and talent for the future AI hub. The state, which takes a step towards digital literacy.
Background: In April 2025, at the opening of an IT park in Dushanbe, Majlisi Milli chairman and Dushanbe mayor Rustami Emomali called for wider educational opportunities in artificial intelligence; the company calls the launch of AI Nation a practical step in that direction.
