HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, has announced humain-m3, a frontier Arabic-language model commissioned by HUMAIN and delivered by MiniMax.
TotalEnergies and French artificial intelligence company Mistral have announced a three-year partnership involving more than €100 million ($116 million) to develop a new generation of AI models for oil and gas exploration and reservoir development.
Saudi Arabia is ramping up investment in artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, led by its wealth fund PIF as the country seeks to attract technology capital and build domestic AI capabilities. The kingdom ranked first globally in digital governance and cybersecurity indicators, and third in AI models.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers emerging markets significant opportunities, but also poses serious risks, said a report, highlighting the need to seize opportunities across three fronts - building digital infrastructure, data ecosystems and investing in skills - to avoid relegation to the margins of the future AI-enabled economy.
International visitors to Saudi Arabia are staying longer, spending more and increasingly turning to artificial intelligence and digital payment tools throughout their travel journey, according to Visa’s Global Travel Intentions Study.
More than 1,400 construction, real estate and data infrastructure leaders gathered in Dubai for the ninth edition of Construction Technology ConFex (CTF) 2026, as artificial intelligence, automation and the rapid expansion of digital infrastructure emerge as key forces reshaping the GCC’s built environment.
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Tourism and Accenture Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the LEAP 2026 conference to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies aimed at transforming the Kingdom’s tourism sector.
Ooredoo, a leading international telecommunications company based in Qatar, has announced plans to invest about $800 million for a 49% stake in Zankore, an artificial intelligence computing platform being developed in Indonesia, thus marking its expansion into AI infrastructure in Southeast Asia.
Artificial intelligence (AI) could allow developing countries to do in a decade what might otherwise take a century — provided that governments act swiftly to close the gaps in power, connectivity, skills, and institutional quality that threaten to leave them behind, a World Bank Group report said.
Saudi PIF has delivered solid results for the FY2025 with the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund more than doubling its net profit to $17 billion over the previous year, helped by stronger contributions from maturing portfolio companies, while its revenue rose 9% to hit $120 billion.
