HUMAIN, a PIF company, will integrate its ALLAM models into Microsoft's AI ecosystem and provide direct engineering support to organizations building AI solutions. The Riyadh partnership strengthens the Kingdom's position as a hub for Arabic-language AI development.
Developed with China's MiniMax and trained on over one trillion Arabic tokens, the new model achieved top scores across seven public Arabic benchmarks. The release underscores Saudi efforts to build sovereign AI capabilities tailored to Arabic-language applications.
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Christiano brings deep expertise in AI alignment and standards to OpenAI's governance and safety oversight. The appointment signals continued focus on secure AI development practices as foundation models grow more capable and widely deployed.
The partnership will deliver AI-ready data centre infrastructure across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. Submer will provide consultancy and design services while Edgecore supplies high-performance networking, addressing surging regional demand for AI compute capacity.
The new model features 552 billion parameters with asymmetric activation: 8 billion for input, 16 billion for output. It outperforms the retired V4 Pro in capability, cost, and speed, demonstrating how architectural innovation can reduce compute costs while improving performance.
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