Version 2: Sat, May 25, 2024
Iran
“The country issued 2,638 AI documents between 2013 and 2022. Saudi Arabia (2,465) and Turkey (2,303) were ranked second and third, respectively, IRIB reported. Iran has also been ranked 14th worldwide in artificial intelligence.”
Iran and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on ethics in Artificial Intelligence (AI) - March 9, 2024 - Archive
Iran’s push into AI sparks intrigue and concerns By Seth J. Frantzman - March 17, 2024
Seth Frantzman is the author of Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machine, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future (Bombardier 2021) and an adjunct fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Pakistan
National Centre of Artificial Intelligence
“Headquartered at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad, NCAI operates research laboratories in six major universities spread across Pakistan. NCAI has developed 221 AI products and designs, benefiting sectors such as smart cities, precision agriculture, healthcare, media monitoring, manufacturing industry, judiciary and many more.”
Turkish, Pakistani academics to ‘solve common problems’ using artificial intelligence Türkiye’s Ondokuz Mayis University and Pakistan’s Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology sign MoU by Riyaz ul Khaliq - 23 May 2024 - Archive
Saudi Arabia
Global summit on artificial intelligence kicks off in Riyadh - Al Arabiya - 13 September, 2022
Rise of #ArtificialIntelligence is inevitable but should not be feared - Jürgen Schmidhuber (@Guardian) - May 7, 2023
Jürgen Schmidhuber is the director of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative and professor of the Computer Science program in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Startup Funding
With $40B fund, Saudi Arabia looks to become world leader in AI: The fund would make the Gulf state the world’s largest investor in AI and help the kingdom realize its Vision 2030 agenda to diversify the economy away from oil by Jack Dutton (@almonitor) - March 20, 2024
Saudi Arabia pledges $1 billion for AI startup accelerator at LEAP24 By Kelsey Warner (@circuitdotnews) - March 4, 2024
Collaboration with Oracle
Oracle Will Train 50,000 Saudi Nationals in Artificial Intelligence and Other Latest Digital Technologies Press Release - December 13, 2023
Tunisia
African AI pioneer InstaDeep ready for future after €500m takeover Conversation with Karim Beguir by David Thomas - April 2nd, 2024 - Archive (Emphasis added)
DeepPack is an AI application allowing shippers to pack containers with maximum efficiency to achieve volume and cost savings; while DeepPCB uses AI to design complex printed circuit boards in less than 24 hours. And then there’s DeepChain – InstaDeep’s programme which allows medical researchers to explore protein sequences in minutes with AI language models trained on billions of amino acids.
It was surely the promise of the latter – as well as the firm’s potential “to discover, design and develop next-generation immunotherapies at scale by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies” – that led German biotech firm BioNTech (creators of the hugely successful Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine) to complete a cash-and-shares takeover of InstaDeep in January 2023, building on previous investment and close collaboration dating back years. The total consideration to acquire the remaining InstaDeep shares, excluding the shares already owned by BioNTech, amounted to approximately €500m in cash, BioNTech shares, and performance-based future milestone payments. From humble beginnings, InstaDeep had captured the zeitgeist.
UAE
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Started: Mon, Apr 29, 2024
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