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1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

HUMAIN invests in Arabic-first technology firm Arabic AI

HUMAIN, the Saudi national AI company, has announced a strategic investment and partnership with enterprise AI provider Arabic.AI and translation firm Tarjama&. This collaboration focuses on three key areas: a translation management platform, an archive digitization engine, and document intelligence agents. Arabic is one of the most challenging languages for AI due to its dialectal variations and the prevalence of historical documents. Instead of developing translation and document intelligence tools from scratch, HUMAIN is investing in a group with nearly two decades of experience in this domain.

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1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Huawei full-stack AI capabilities accelerate intelligent transformation across Saudi industries

Huawei reaffirmed its commitment to Saudi Arabia at LEAP 2026, presenting a clear value proposition to enhance industry value through full-stack AI capabilities. The Saudi ICT market has grown 89.5% since 2017, reaching US$53 billion, highlighting the digital economy's role in supporting Vision 2030. Huawei aims to provide comprehensive solutions encompassing connectivity, compute, and cloud, investing over 20% of its annual revenue in R&D. Its AI-enhanced products include Agentic RAN, AI OTN, and AI WAN, contributing to the Kingdom's digital infrastructure advancement.

Arab AI Scene

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

NTT DATA to launch AI experience lab in Riyadh to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across the region

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI services, announced plans to launch the NTT DATA AI Factory Lab in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in September 2026. The lab aims to accelerate AI adoption by providing a comprehensive suite of solutions and services in collaboration with partners like Cisco and NVIDIA. The lab will support AI strategy workshops and hands-on experiences to help organizations identify high-impact use cases and validate business outcomes. It aligns with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 by fostering innovation and economic growth through advanced technology adoption.

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Arab AI Scene

Together AI and HUMAIN partner on 250MW Saudi centre

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Together AI and HUMAIN partner on 250MW Saudi centre

Together AI, based in San Francisco, has announced a partnership with HUMAIN to construct a 250-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia. This collaboration, revealed at LEAP 2026, connects HUMAIN's physical hardware infrastructure directly to Together AI's global customer base. The initiative aims for $5 billion in gross annual revenue during its first year of operation, leveraging Saudi Arabia's grid capacity for compute-heavy training and inference tasks. This partnership allows developers to deploy models on local hardware without the need for custom integration tools.

Agents

Frontline-optimised AI: Bringing enterprise intelligence to edge

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Agents

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Frontline-optimised AI: Bringing enterprise intelligence to edge

Zebra Technologies has announced its new frontline AI strategy, led by Hozefa Saylawala. This strategy emphasizes the use of on-device AI rather than cloud dependency, enhancing operational efficiency in supply chains and healthcare services. Many organizations face challenges related to cloud reliance, unpredictable costs, and data privacy, hindering AI scalability. Zebra offers a new model based on Small Language Models and tokenless AI, providing fast and secure assistance to frontline workers even without internet connectivity.

Business

MRTIS TechBio Secures Approval for Hong Kong IPO Filing

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Business

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

MRTIS TechBio Secures Approval for Hong Kong IPO Filing

MRTIS TechBio, an AI-driven nanomedicine company, has received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to list in Hong Kong. The company plans to issue up to 273 million shares, while 39 existing shareholders will convert approximately 852 million domestic shares into tradable H-shares. Founded in 2020 by Dr. Hongmin Chen and MIT scientists, MRTIS focuses on AI-enabled nanomaterial innovation. Its proprietary NanoForge platform supports large-scale lipid nanoparticle design, boasting a database of tens of millions of compounds.

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HUMAIN launches AI Cloud on NVIDIA Blackwell

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

HUMAIN launches AI Cloud on NVIDIA Blackwell

HUMAIN, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, has launched its AI cloud in Saudi Arabia, powered by NVIDIA HGX B300 Blackwell systems. The platform currently supports government and enterprise AI services, with the Ministry of Commerce among its first clients using it for regulatory inspections and fraud detection. The reported 90% utilization of the new AI cloud cluster capacity highlights the demand for data center resources exceeding availability. HUMAIN plans to expand its capacity to 1.9 gigawatts by 2030, aiming for a target of 6.6 gigawatts by 2034.

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Adobe moves AI workloads to HUMAIN’s Qualcomm hub

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Arab AI Scene

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Adobe moves AI workloads to HUMAIN’s Qualcomm hub

Adobe has announced that it is the first global software company to migrate its AI workloads to HUMAIN's infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, utilizing Qualcomm's Dragonfly AI processors. This shift reflects Adobe's confidence in the infrastructure's ability to support large data workloads. This move follows a strategic collaboration announced last November between HUMAIN, Qualcomm, and Adobe, as previous workloads were limited to national use. This transition serves as a test for HUMAIN's platform to handle enterprise-grade production workloads internationally.

Models

DeepSeek Open-Sources V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Its First Native Vision Model

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

Models

1 Sept 202620 Rabiʻ I 1448 AH

DeepSeek Open-Sources V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Its First Native Vision Model

DeepSeek launched its first multimodal model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, on Hugging Face on August 31 under an MIT license. This release marks the initial support for image input within the V4 series, packaging model files, a tokenizer, a prompt-encoding reference, and a minimal PyTorch inference implementation. The new model can describe images, read text in screenshots, and analyze charts, accepting JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP formats. According to DeepSeek, its performance on pure-text tasks remains on par with the V4-Flash release, while it gains substantial improvements on agent benchmarks requiring visual understanding.