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We are thrilled to announce, in collaboration with AramcoSAIL @aramco, Saudi Arabia's Research, Development, and Innovation Authority @SaudiRDI and @HUMAIN , the listed startups for the 2026 edition of the Design in Saudi Arabia with AI program “DISAI”.
Now in its second year, the program has seen a significant surge in interest with over 124 applications received from startups across Saudi Arabia. This impressive response underscores the rapidly growing interest in AI, IoT, and advanced wireless technologies within the country's startup community.
We extend our warmest congratulations to all the selected startups on this achievement. bit.ly/4vBdF2C
نحن سعداء بالإعلان، بالتعاون مع المختبر السعودي للابتكار المتسارع، هيئة تنمية البحث والتطوير والابتكار و هيومين، عن قائمة الشركات الناشئة المشاركة في نسخة 2026 من برنامج التصميم في السعودية باستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي "DISAI".
في عامه الثاني، شهد البرنامج زيادة كبيرة في الاهتمام، مع أكثر من 124 طلبًا تم استلامه من الشركات الناشئة في جميع أنحاء المملكة العربية السعودية. هذه الاستجابة الممتازة تؤكد النمو السريع للاهتمام بالذكاء الاصطناعي وتقنيات إنترنت الأشياء ودورهما المحوري في دفع عجلة الابتكار و بناء حلول تقنية ذات أثر مستدام
نقدم تهانينا لجميع الشركات الناشئة المختارة على هذا الإنجاز ونتطلع إلى رؤية ابتكاراتهم تتحول إلى حلول ملموسة تسهم في بناء مستقبل تقني واعد
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The Kelvingrove Platform is live — the world's first enterprise AI agent system built on mathematical first principles.
First Mills (Tadawul: 2283) — Saudi Arabia's leading flour miller — is our first customer, deploying across all four facilities.
📰 Full breakdown @MiddleEastAI : middleeastainews.com/p/kodam…
🔗 Press Release: kodamai.com/news/kodamai-sol…
📖 Blog: kodamai.com/news/your-ai-age…
📄 White Paper: kodamai.com/news/workforce-a…
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بعد نجاح Cohort 1، فتحت Presight باب التقديم للدفعة الثانية من Global AI Accelerator Program
قدّموا عبر الرابط أدناه
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Now you have an alternative to the super popular but unfortunately not so transparent (you have no idea how it was trained, what data was used, is it safe …) base LLMs such as Qwen 2.5 or 3, to build your own reasoning or general purpose LLMs through post-train, SFT, RL, etc. It is 360-open and reproducible.
Today, we are releasing a new version of K2 (K2-V2), a 360-open LLM built from scratch as a superior base for reasoning adaptation, while still excelling at core LLM capabilities like conversation, knowledge retrieval, and long-context understanding.
K2 fills a major gap: highly capable models with no transparency. Instead of releasing only weights, we’re sharing the full training story — dataset recipes, mid-training checkpoints, logs, code, and evaluation tools. That’s 360-open.
What’s inside:
• 70B dense transformer engineered as a reasoning-enhanced base model
• Native 512K context (extendable via RoPE scaling)
• Mid-training reasoning phase
• Strong tool-use scaffolding
What we’re open-sourcing:
• 250M+ reasoning traces (math, planning, multi-step logic)
• Full pre- & mid-training data compositions
• All mid-training checkpoints
• Training logs, code, Eval360
Performance:
• GPQA-Diamond: 55.1% mid-training → 69.3% after SFT (strongest fully open 70B model)
• KK-8 Logic Puzzles: 83% — competitive with DeepSeek-R1 & OpenAI o3-mini-high
• ArenaHard V2: 62.1% — close to Qwen3 235B
• Outperforms Qwen2.5-72B and approaches Qwen3-235B despite being smaller and fully transparent.
🔗 The Model:
bit.ly/3KIYwuo
🔗Technical Report:
bit.ly/49V8h2U
🔗Blog:
bit.ly/49V7gb6
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A big win for the UAE in its quest to be a global AI leader: the U.S. is authorizing the export of advanced Nvidia AI chips to @G42ai . I spoke with Acting Group Chief Global Affairs Officer, @TalalAlKaissi , who said the UAE has "competitive advantages that make it a center of gravity where we can attract these big companies."
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Presight Presents AI Week put AI in the spotlight over five incredible days - Dubai Eye’s The Business Breakfast, Carrington Malin’s Middle East AI News, and Al Khaleejiya, the week showcased the innovations, startups, and talent shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
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A true David vs. Goliath moment from @mbzuai, with the release of K2 Think, a 32B model beating models 10 to 20 x bigger in math and ascending to top 1 spot in global open source reasoning model lineup, edging toward the best proprietary models 100sX of bigger. Congrats to all!
Introducing K2 Think - a breakthrough in advanced AI reasoning.
Developed by MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models and @G42ai, K2 Think delivers frontier reasoning performance at a fraction of the size of today’s largest systems.
Smaller. Smarter. Open to the world.
Available now: K2Think.Ai/K2Think
#K2Think #AI #OpenSource #MBZUAI #G42 #Innovation
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Qualcomm joins @MiddleEastAI News as a Strategic Sponsor. As a global leader in wireless technology and #AI, Qualcomm is proud to support one of the region’s fastest-growing AI platforms.
𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦! @Qualcomm joins 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 as a 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙧! 🚀
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PSA to all AI Journalists. Take note. This is how it's done. Great research and analysis as always @MalinCarrington
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Today, I attended the AI Retreat on the first day of Dubai AI Week, where I met senior officials, global tech experts, and leaders of top AI companies. We focused on the importance of staying ahead in the government sector to adapt to the rapid advancements in AI and prepare for the transformative changes the future will bring. We also explored four critical areas: data empowerment, digital infrastructure, funding, and talent development.
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We built the region’s largest inference cluster in Saudi Arabia in 51 days and we just announced a $1.5B agreement for Groq to expand our advanced LPU-based AI inference infrastructure.
Build fast.
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أطلقت جامعة محمد بن زايد للذكاء الاصطناعي @mbzuai في أبوظبي نموذج AIN، أول نموذج شامل متعدد الوسائط باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية.
MBZUAI releases Arabic 'inclusive' multimodal AI model @CarringtonMalin
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"The recent announcement of Aramco Digital partnering with Groq to deliver market-leading AI inference represents a key partnership in one of the most important and fastest-growing regions for AI investment and consumption." – @danielnewmanUV
Read more: hubs.la/Q02PHkMz0
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From Riyadh, the 3rd edition of the #GainSummit kicks off. Join us on this innovation journey and watch the livestream of Day 1 teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1OyKAZkgL…
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"SparkLabs launches $50 million fund for Saudi AIM-X accelerator" Middle East AI News middleeastainews.com/p/spark…
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Tomorrow at 6 PM ET: @CNBCDisruptors special, @CNBC Disruptor 50: AI & the Next Generation of Disruption with @jakeloosy, @JBoorstin, and our wall-climbing robots.
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