{"name":"Applied AI in Azerbaijan — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Azerbaijan, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/azerbaijan","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Azerbaijan","slug":"azerbaijan","iso2":"AZ","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":25,"deployments":15,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":5,"regulation":5,"industries":7,"countries":1,"linked":25},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"Ministry of Justice","text":"The Ministry of Justice has launched AI property valuation so citizens can price a property before a sale or purchase reaches a notary, said Justice Minister Farid Ahmadov. The pricing tool sits within a wider ministry AI push centred on Azerbaijan's notary sector.","date":"2026-10-07","source":"https://report.az/en/domestic-politics/minister-azerbaijan-launches-new-ai-powered-tool-for-property-valuation"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Penetration tester","org":"State Service for Special Communications and Information Security","text":"Azerbaijan's State Service for Special Communications and Information Security now runs AI penetration testing on internet-facing information systems. Machine findings are benchmarked against human-led audits so weak spots in automated security reviews get fixed, an official told ADEX 2026.","date":"2026-10-02","source":"https://report.az/en/ict/azerbaijan-uses-ai-to-monitor-internet-information-systems"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Food safety inspector","org":"Azerbaijan Food Safety Agency","text":"The Azerbaijan Food Safety Agency will apply AI food safety risk analysis inside the Automated Food Safety Information System, or AQTİS, tightening enforcement, rule-making and the warnings that reach traders and shoppers, under a State Programme for 2027-2032 signed by President Ilham Aliyev. Kit selection comes first, jointly with other public bodies, before a model that flags hazard detection and brewing trouble is built and turned on. The Ministry of Digital Development and Transport and the Ministry of Economy share delivery.","date":"2026-09-10","source":"https://az.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/4222748.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Radiologist","org":"TABIB","text":"TABIB has AI radiology pilots running now in Azerbaijan, alongside tools aimed at easing doctors' workflows. The state health body ranks machine reading of medical images, earlier disease detection, clinical decision support and patient-data handling among the more promising uses of medical imaging AI. Candidate systems are still being weighed, and the public will hear which clear the bars of clinical accuracy, data security, personal-data protection and specialist supervision.","date":"2026-09-08","source":"https://far.az/114196-azerbaycanda-xesteliklerin-ashkarlanmasinda-suni-intellektden-istifade-edilecek.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Payments customer service agent","org":"Bir","text":"Bir has dropped a chatbot named Ey-ay into the m10 digital wallet, the first AI payments assistant fielded in Azerbaijan and a product of the Caucasus region's earliest joined-up e-commerce, banking and payments ecosystem. Everyday transfers and the rest of the menu now run as conversational payments through plain chat, riding a swift national retreat from cash. The group counts over 5 million customers, tied in with Trendyol Azerbaijan and BakıKart.","date":"2026-08-11","source":"https://infocity.tech/2026/08/bir-zapuskaet-pervogo-v-azerbajdzhane-ii-assistenta-dlya-elektronnyh-koshelkov/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan","text":"Prime Minister Ali Asadov approved priority sectors for AI development under Azerbaijan AI policy, each with an accountable state body. Ministries and agencies lead healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, transport, justice, ecology, finance (with the Central Bank), urban planning, public services (ASAN), and economy and industry. Each oversees adoption, talent and regulation in its field, making AI governance sector-led.","date":"2026-07-22","source":"https://aztvxeber.az/1804-%C9%99li-%C9%99s%C9%99dov-q%C9%99rar-imzalad%C4%B1.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Retail banking customer service agent","org":"Bank ABB","text":"Bank ABB threw open AI-nur and AI-khan to the whole client base once trials wrapped, billing the duo as among the earliest voice-driven AI banking assistants in Azerbaijan and the wider region. Conversational banking has drawn 230k people and 2.5 million exchanges. The lender keeps 180 generative and predictive models in production, worth above 35 million AZN in positive impact on the bank's own count.","date":"2026-06-04","source":"https://www.aap.com.au/aapreleases/globenewswire1001185827/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Architect","org":"Yes Architects","text":"Yes Architects has AI architectural design live on two Azerbaijani building schemes, co-founder Yeşeren Ersan of the Turkish practice told the Invision Design Talks 2 forum. Roughly 20% of one scheme's drawings and 50% of the other's came out of machine-assisted design. Ersan puts today's saving near 10%, and sees 80-90% within five years.","date":"2026-05-11","source":"https://vesti.az/texnologiya/tureckaya-kompaniya-ispolzovala-ii-v-stroitelnyx-proektax-v-azerbaidzane-593678"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"XRİTDX and AI Academy","text":"Government staff across Azerbaijan finished AI for product managers training from the Special Communications and Information Security Service (XRİTDX) and the AI Academy, learning to spot information security threats and craft AI-based tools. This product manager AI course backs the nation's cybersecurity strategy.","date":"2026-05-01","source":"https://scis.gov.az/az/news/view/360/dovlet-qurumlarinin-emekdaslari-ucun-suni-intellekt-uzre-telim-proqrami-yekunlasib"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Teacher","org":"Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan's Ministry of Science and Education has wired a bespoke Copilot Agent, spun up in Microsoft Copilot Studio, into the Digital School platform, so AI lesson planning sits in the app teachers open daily. The helper roughs out plans and classroom handouts, boils down background reading, frames slide decks and turns out first-cut assessments and rubrics. Some 900,000 accounts sit there: 44,552 teachers, 543,255 pupils, 360,709 parents.","date":"2026-04-29","source":"https://edu.gov.az/en/announcements/23004-1"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"ASAN Service (State Agency for Citizen Services and Social Innovations)","text":"ASAN Service, Azerbaijan's State Agency for Citizen Services and Social Innovations, is phasing in compulsory AI training for government employees, reaching 5,500 staff. The ASAN Innovative Development Center leads this public-sector AI upskilling, trialled in Baku, Shusha and Salyan, blending tool use, data handling, content generation and automation.","date":"2026-04-23","source":"https://newscenter.az/2026/04/23/asan-xidmet-suni-intellekt-telimlerini-icbari-telimler-siyahisina-elave-edib.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"Republic of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan has rewritten its Criminal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and its media and information statutes to reach artificial intelligence. Deepfakes now anchor Azerbaijan AI regulation: new article 148-2 makes it an offence to build or circulate unreal photo, video or audio drawn from someone's face or voice without permission, while article 242-1 does the same for pornographic or sexually explicit output. Machine-made matter shown publicly must bear a label that is easy to spot under the new AI law.","date":"2026-04-21","source":"https://www.caspianlegalcenter.az/az/news/more/ai-use-crime"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Farmer","org":"Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan's Ministry of Agriculture runs AI crop monitoring nationally, says Surkhay Novruzov, who heads its AI projects. Wheat stress readings began reaching the ministry in April and cotton has since joined, with every crop the target; a companion model judges whether water reaches tilled land, right roughly 82% of the time. A separate alert engine recognises 16 pests and diseases, pushing three-day outlooks to growers over Telegram at 07:00 daily, alongside evapotranspiration and plant-water figures.","date":"2026-04","source":"https://www.trend.az/business/4221738.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"ASAN AI Hub","text":"100 officials became Azerbaijan's inaugural graduates of AI training for civil servants, run jointly by ASAN AI Hub and Apolitical across seven courses on prompt engineering, healthcare, procurement, climate policy and leadership. This government AI upskilling push drew broader demand: 500-plus sign-ups, 40-plus agencies.","date":"2026-03-17","source":"https://newscenter.az/2026/03/17/asan-ai-hub-platformasinda-dovlet-sektorunun-ilk-100-numayendesi-suni-intellekt-uzre-telimi-basa-vurub.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Prosecutor","org":"Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev confirmed automated triage for AI in public prosecution: since late 2025, systems suggest which officer handles each application, staff finalising it. The effort extends to AI government case management, with tools planned for investigations and citizen phone enquiries under supervision.","date":"2026-02-05","source":"https://far.az/66088-bash-prokuror-prokurorluqda-suni-intellekt-texnologiyalarindan-istifadeye-bashlanilib.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Plant operator","org":"SOCAR Carbamide","text":"SOCAR Carbamide at Sumqayit, Azerbaijan, has joined the World Economic Forum's Global Lighthouse Network among 22 freshly named factories, recognised for industrial AI in fertiliser production. Squeezed from 2022 by broken regional food routes, shaky natural gas feedstock and already flat out, the works layered 42 digitally enabled use cases over an in-house AI-machine learning engine, adding closed-loop autonomous process control, generative AI and shopfloor robots. Throughput climbed 21% and gas efficiency 24%.","date":"2026-01-15","source":"https://www.weforum.org/press/2026/01/global-lighthouse-network-recognizes-23-new-sites-launches-ai-platform-for-industrial-transformation/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Police officer","org":"Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan's Ministry of Internal Affairs added an AI chatbot for police services to the E-Polis mobile app and the online portal e-xidmet.mia.gov.az, starting as a pilot. Users type questions and get immediate automated replies covering applications, required documents and procedures. Pending trial outcomes, the policing assistant will gain voice features and sharper replies.","date":"2025-12-16","source":"https://xeberler.az/new/details/suni-intellekt-%E2%80%9Ce-polis%E2%80%9D-mobil-tetbiqine-inteqrasiya-edilib--37639.htm"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan's State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations has unveiled the ASAN AI Hub, an AI innovation government platform designed to unite scholars, officials, businesses and the public in one shared digital space, functioning as a government AI platform for public-private collaboration. Cash-prize contests posted there challenge undergraduates, academics, founders and civic organisations to devise fixes, positioning the hub as a crossroads linking universities, industry and the state. Its debut ceremony sealed partnerships with Apolitical, Breakthrough Social Enterprise and GenAI Works.","date":"2025-12-02","source":"https://www.azernews.az/nation/251035.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Social worker","org":"DOST Digital Innovations Centre","text":"AI fraud detection now underpins disability assessments at Azerbaijan's DOST Digital Innovations Centre, per Kenan Akparov at SOCGOV 2025. Flagging cases where personal data skews results, the tool eases reviewer loads and supports fairer medical judgments, part of a broader push measuring public-service quality via AI-based disability evaluation.","date":"2025-10-24","source":"https://az.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/4108486.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Lawyer","org":"Ministry of Digital Development and Transport and Ministry of Justice","text":"E-qanun.ai now lets Azerbaijan's legal community mine the country's legislative database through one AI legal search platform. Built by the National Artificial Intelligence Center, the system reads queries by keyword, by meaning, or through a blended method, then hands back AI-written summaries instead of raw statute text. The launch pushes legal research automation forward, aiming for faster answers for practitioners and broader public reach into the law.","date":"2025-09-25","source":"https://mincom.gov.az/en/media-en/news/e-qanunai-platform-officially-presented"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Petroleum geoscientist","org":"GL Group","text":"Onshore fields in Salyan now run AI seismic data processing under a Waverity partnership with GL Group, marking a regional first for post-stack interpretation of subsurface data. Kursangi and Garabaghli saw sharper imaging and newly identified zones missed by earlier methods. GL Group, based in Azerbaijan, showcased results from this machine-learning approach to seismic mapping at Houston's IMAGE 2025 conference.","date":"2025-09-09","source":"https://www.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/4088341.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"Azerbaijan Standardisation Institute (AZSTAND)","text":"Azerbaijan now has a national AI management system standard. AZSTAND adopted AZS ISO/IEC 42001:2025, \"Information Technology – Artificial Intelligence – Management System,\" after review by committee AZSTAND/TK 05. It covers AI risk, ethics, transparency and a system's full lifecycle, and now sits in the State Fund of Normative Documents as the country's official AI governance benchmark.","date":"2025-07-28","source":"https://www.trend.az/business/4074675.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Azerbaijan","role":"Retail banking customer","org":"Bank of Baku","text":"Round-the-clock digital support for Bank of Baku customers now comes from BOBAI, a newly launched AI virtual assistant customer service tool hosted on bankofbaku.com and Bolkart.az. Available 24/7, it handles queries on products and services while routing trickier issues to human staff. The rollout marks another step in the lender's push toward full digital transformation in Azerbaijan, extending its AI chatbot for banking support beyond typical business hours.","date":"2025-07-19","source":"https://fed.az/az/bank/bank-of-baku-nun-suni-intellekt-destekli-bobai-xidmeti-i%CC%87sti%CC%87fadeye-veri%CC%87ldi%CC%87-236249"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"President of Azerbaijan","text":"A presidential decree signed by Ilham Aliyev put the Azerbaijan AI strategy into effect for the Republic of Azerbaijan, running through 2025-2028. Five focus areas structure the plan — regulatory governance, education and workforce skills, infrastructure and data systems, innovation and research, plus cooperation abroad — while each ministry must appoint a deputy minister handling digitalisation and AI matters. Ministerial accountability thus becomes the backbone of the country's artificial intelligence policy.","date":"2025-03-19","source":"https://president.az/ru/articles/view/68364"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Azerbaijan","org":"President of the Republic of Azerbaijan","text":"Azerbaijan AI policy now runs on a national strategy for 2025-2028, approved by presidential decree from President Ilham Aliyev for the Republic of Azerbaijan. It sets goals across government services, the economy, schooling, data and computing capacity, workforce skills, and safety and ethics oversight, backed by a coordinating body and an action plan to 2028. The approach treats artificial intelligence adoption in Azerbaijan as a cross-sector priority rather than a single-agency effort.","date":"2025-03-19","source":"https://president.az/az/articles/view/68364"}]}