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Yandex upgrades Alice AI model for free, but parental controls remain paid

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Yandex has upgraded its Alice voice assistant across its smart devices to a more advanced AI model without an additional charge. This upgrade, implemented on March 12, 2026, provides longer responses and improved interaction quality, aligning the smart speaker's capabilities with its mobile app counterpart. However, premium features such as parental controls, time limits, and scheduled restrictions remain part of the paid "Alice Plus" subscription, with content filtering being the only free parental control, and even that is noted as potentially unreliable. AI

IMPACT This upgrade enhances the conversational abilities of a widely used voice assistant, potentially improving user experience but keeping advanced safety features behind a paywall.

RANK_REASON Product update for an existing AI assistant, not a new frontier model release.

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Yandex upgrades Alice AI model for free, but parental controls remain paid

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 Русский(RU) · Promptra Team ·

    Alice got smarter for free. Parental controls remained paid — and unreliable

    <p>12 марта 2026 года Яндекс раздал всем владельцам Станций мощную генеративную модель без доплаты, а родительский контроль — лимиты времени, запрет по расписанию, история — так и остался за подпиской. Бесплатно родителю достаётся только фильтр контента, о котором сам вендор пише…

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