Yandex builds Alice Pro into Mail: AI finds facts in emails and helps draft replies

Yandex has added a chat with Alice Pro to Yandex Mail. The AI assistant is built on Alice AI LLM and can parse emails and attachments, extract facts from them and draft a reply right away. The new tool targets both personal and work scenarios, from finding invoices and tickets to summarizing project correspondence.

What the assistant can do

The assistant works directly with the contents of the mailbox. It analyzes not only the text of emails but also attachments: PDFs, documents, spreadsheets and presentations. If the mailbox holds gas station receipts, Alice Pro can calculate fuel spending for a given month. If a contractor was discussed in a thread, it will find the payment details, the tax ID (INN) or the invoice number. Using transcripts of Telemost meetings, the assistant can remind you what participants agreed on and which decisions they made.

• Totals expenses from receipts and payment slips
• Finds tickets, invoices and payment details in correspondence
• Summarizes work email threads
• Helps recover agreements made in meetings
• Writes an email from scratch or edits a draft

Beyond analysis, the AI can also act as a text editor. You can give it the key points and it will compose the email itself, or hand it a draft and ask it to make the text more formal, shorter or clearer. Yandex also notes that the assistant can connect to open internet sources for everyday tasks, for example to check the weather before a trip or to help pick restaurants in a given city.

How the search works

The key feature of the service is search by meaning, not by literal word matches. If you ask, "How much did I pay for my apartment in February?", the assistant will not expect an email to contain exactly that phrasing. It will work out that the answer is probably in a utility bill or a unified payment document (EPD) for that month, and pull the figure from there. This approach is especially useful when users cannot remember which email or attachment held the information they need.

"It doesn't just find the email, it gives a ready answer with facts

right in the chat."

Alice AI LLM generates the answers, and a RAG system assembles the result: it combines the model's knowledge with facts extracted from the user's specific emails and files. This cuts down on manual archive searching and turns email from a collection of scattered threads into a working knowledge base. In effect, Yandex is turning the mailbox into an interface where you can ask questions in natural language and quickly get a concise, practical answer.

Access and data protection

At the time of the announcement, the chat with Alice Pro became available to users of paid Yandex 360 plans for individuals, families and work; the company promised to add a corporate launch as the next stage. This is an important detail: it is not an external plugin but a built-in feature inside the Yandex ecosystem. The service previously used generative models to highlight important emails and prepare short summaries, and now the AI is moving from passive suggestions to a full dialogue with the mail archive.

Yandex puts separate emphasis on privacy. Alice Pro runs inside the secure Yandex 360 perimeter, accesses correspondence only on the user's direct request, does not store processing results and does not send data outside. Mailbox materials are also not used to train the model. For a service that reads your email, this is not an extra detail but a basic condition of trust: without such a guarantee, widespread use in work scenarios would be difficult.

What this means

Email is gradually ceasing to be a mere message store and becoming an interface to a personal and work archive. For users, that means time saved hunting for details; for Yandex, it is one more step toward making Alice Pro a universal assistant across the entire Yandex 360 lineup.