MWC25 Barcelona | Empowering Low-Resource Languages with AI – Video interview with VEON

GSMA Foundry’s partner VEON, and Excellence Award winner 2025 in the Artificial Intelligence Award Category, showcased an immersive experience at MWC Barcelona 2025 showing how a Kazakh-trained LLM responds to cultural and historical questions, compared to generic open-source models.

The difference? It’s profound — and it proves why local data and local teams matter.

In this video interview, Hande Asik, Group Director of Strategy and Communications, of VEON, talks about how this initiative is about more than just technology. It’s about:

• Building AI that reflects the communities it serves
• Preserving and empowering local languages
• Preserving and empowering local languages

Learn more about our partnership with VEON here.