UAE and Lebanon launch initiative to train one million AI experts
The UAE and Lebanon have launched a programme focused on generative AI and prompt-engineering skills under the Government Experience Exchange Programme.
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Saudi Arabia declares 2026 Year of Artificial Intelligence and unveils 480MW Hexagon supercomputing center
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and SDAIA launch the national Year of AI alongside the world's largest sovereign government computing hub in Riyadh.
QCRI publishes Fanar 2.0 technical report, validating resource-efficient Arabic multimodal models
Hamad Bin Khalifa University releases complete evaluation benchmarks demonstrating high-performance Arabic LLM scaling on sovereign H100 clusters.
KAUST AI Initiative engineers high-precision bilingual LLMs for advanced scientific research
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology leverages Shaheen III supercomputer to develop foundation models for genomics, catalysis, and solar engineering.
SDAIA deploys ALLAM 34B Arabic foundation model across 30 Saudi government ministries
The sovereign model powers automated legislative drafting, citizen query routing, and internal administrative search across state agencies.
MBZUAI inaugurates specialized undergraduate degree and expanded Falcon foundation model lab
The world's first graduate AI university expands its academic mandate into undergraduate engineering and dedicated foundation model evaluation.
Qatar MCIT and Scale AI deploy automated data annotation engine for public sector models
The strategic initiative builds high-fidelity Arabic training corpuses for state healthcare, municipal permits, and legislative drafting.
Qatar Investment Authority establishes Qai with multi-billion mandate for sovereign compute
The national artificial intelligence firm partners with global infrastructure managers to finance liquid-cooled data clusters and localized cloud workloads.
Qatar Airways deploys generative AI and predictive analytics to optimize global flight operations
The national carrier integrates real-time crew scheduling, predictive maintenance, and conversational multilingual passenger concierges.
Web Summit Qatar catalyzes over $1 billion in sovereign venture allocations for regional AI founders
The Doha technology gathering confirms major anchor allocations from QIA, Qatar Development Bank, and international tech funds.
University of Bahrain establishes Center for Artificial Intelligence and Applied Data Analytics
The national research hub focuses on climate modeling, desalination optimization, and Arabic dialect speech processing.
Bahrain Economic Development Board secures record FDI inflows for machine learning ventures
Competitive operating costs, 100 percent foreign ownership, and regulatory clarity position the island nation as an attractive software development hub.
Kuwait University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory pioneers regional Arabic dialect tokenization
Researchers at the College of Computing Sciences develop specialized subword tokenizers capturing Gulf colloquial idioms and maritime terminology.
Warba Bank launches automated Sharia-compliant digital wealth management copilot
The digital Islamic bank integrates conversational portfolio rebalancing and algorithmic Sukuk screening for retail and private banking clients.
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN and AMD plan a 500MW open AI compute network
The five-year collaboration carries an investment ambition of up to $10 billion, with delivery and utilisation now the measures that matter.
Qatar brings Azure OpenAI service into its local cloud region
A government partnership with Microsoft combines local data processing and new GPU capacity with a push to build AI-enabled public services.
Fanar 2.0 reframes Arabic AI as a full sovereign stack
Qatar's second-generation platform combines language, speech, image and safety systems while publishing evidence about the constraints of Arabic model building.
Oman's Maeen language model anchors a three-part national AI launch
The national model arrived alongside an AI Studio and open-data portal, linking Arabic technology with public-sector problem solving and reusable data.
Kuwait and UNDP assess national AI readiness and governance priorities
The assessment examines Kuwait’s AI ecosystem, government adoption, regulation, ethics, capabilities and gaps to inform future priorities.
HUMAIN and Cohere plan dedicated 50MW AI compute deployment in Saudi Arabia
The partnership will combine Saudi infrastructure with Cohere’s enterprise model expertise and explore sovereign Arabic-language AI systems.
Saudi Arabia joins Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
SDAIA’s membership brings Saudi Arabia into a multilateral forum focused on responsible AI, international cooperation and shared policy practice.