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7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Nvidia to acquire AI startup Hugging Face

Nvidia recently announced its agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion. This announcement follows reports from a week prior indicating Nvidia was nearing the deal. CEO Jensen Huang stated that over 18 million developers, researchers, and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications.

Models

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI recently announced the launch of GPT-6 Astra, claimed to be the world's most advanced model. This model is said to represent the early stages of artificial general intelligence (AGI), combining years of research and reinforcement learning. GPT-6 Astra will be rolled out starting September 4, 2026, to a limited set of organizations and will be available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through OpenAI's API, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Bedrock.

Infrastructure

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

DeepSeek plans to deploy Huawei AI accelerators

DeepSeek is planning to deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT AI accelerators in a new data center in Inner Mongolia. If successful, this would create one of the largest known clusters of Chinese AI chips. However, delivery could take over a year due to component shortages affecting production capacity.

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Nokia opens research and development centre in Riyadh

How might Nokia's center impact local talent development in Saudi Arabia?

Arab AI Scene

World Bank backs Jordan school digital plan

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

World Bank backs Jordan school digital plan

The World Bank has approved a $3.5 million grant to plan a digital transformation project for Jordan's public education system, including the establishment of an EdTech and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre. The funding will assess digital infrastructure readiness across approximately 3,500 public schools and pilot devices like Chromebooks.

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Magna AI and MBUZZ partner to deliver enterprise AI infrastructure and transformation services across the Middle East and Africa

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Magna AI and MBUZZ partner to deliver enterprise AI infrastructure and transformation services across the Middle East and Africa

Magna AI, a leader in AI transformation, has announced a partnership with MBUZZ, a Saudi ICT infrastructure integration company. This collaboration aims to deliver AI infrastructure and transformation services to enterprises across the Middle East and Africa. The partnership combines Magna AI’s capabilities in AI enablement and enterprise transformation with MBUZZ’s infrastructure integration, enhancing organizations' ability to move from experimentation to production. This comes as AI investment accelerates in the region, with the Middle East and Africa being the fastest-growing area for AI infrastructure investment globally.

Agents

Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing to apply to test driverless vehicles in Hong Kong

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Agents

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing to apply to test driverless vehicles in Hong Kong

Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, announced plans to test autonomous vehicles in an urban area of Hong Kong this year. This announcement followed a visit by Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan to Didi's headquarters in Beijing, where details of the trial were discussed with lawmakers. Didi aims to expand the trials later to include new development areas, reflecting its commitment to enhancing self-driving technology in global markets. This move is part of the company's strategy to broaden its operations in new markets and foster innovation in transportation.

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HUMAIN Launches AI Cloud in Saudi Arabia

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

HUMAIN Launches AI Cloud in Saudi Arabia

HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund company, has launched its AI cloud in Saudi Arabia, powered by NVIDIA's accelerated computing systems. This cloud is currently supporting AI workloads for government and enterprise customers across the Kingdom, marking a significant advancement in AI adoption. The HUMAIN AI cloud utilizes Blackwell Ultra GPUs, providing advanced infrastructure for Saudi organizations to develop, customize, and deploy AI models. Currently, it supports 1.1 MW of operational capacity, with plans to expand to 35.1 MW by the end of 2027.

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HUMAIN Unveils humain-m3, a Frontier Arabic Language

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

HUMAIN Unveils humain-m3, a Frontier Arabic Language

HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced the launch of the humain-m3 Arabic language model on September 3, 2026, during the LEAP conference. Developed by MiniMax, the model is now available in research preview through the HUMAIN Node platform. The humain-m3 model features 428 billion parameters and has been pre-trained on over one trillion tokens of Arabic-native content. It achieved the highest average scores across seven public Arabic benchmarks, showcasing its strong performance in Arabic language understanding and reasoning.

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HUMAIN and Applied Intuition Announce Strategic

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

7 Sept 202626 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition Announce Strategic

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition have announced a strategic collaboration to deploy physical AI across Saudi Arabia, starting with an autonomous trucking network. This initiative aims to establish the world's largest autonomous trucking network, deploying thousands of trucks across key logistics corridors by 2030. The project will initially focus on autonomous trucking, laying the groundwork for future expansions into robotaxis, ports, mining, manufacturing, agriculture, and construction. Applied Intuition will provide its end-to-end physical AI platform, designed to scale across a billion moving machines, through a long-term commercial partnership.