{"publisher":"Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Cite as: Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)","docs":"https://cicadaconsultancy.online/llms.txt","item":{"id":"kaust-opens-2009","event_date":"2009-09-23","published":"2026-10-03","category":"ai","importance":2,"title":{"en":"KAUST opens as Saudi Arabia's graduate research university","ar":"كاوست تفتتح أبوابها جامعةً سعودية للدراسات العليا والبحث العلمي"},"summary":{"en":"King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) was established and inaugurated on 23 September 2009 at Thuwal on the Red Sea coast, the Kingdom's first mixed-gender university campus. It opened with a reported endowment of about $10 billion and operates the Shaheen supercomputer, once the fastest in the Middle East. KAUST has since become the Kingdom's main research base for computing and AI, and in 2024 it added Centers of Excellence, including one on generative AI.","ar":"تأسست جامعة الملك عبدالله للعلوم والتقنية (كاوست) وافتُتحت رسمياً في 23 سبتمبر 2009 في ثول على ساحل البحر الأحمر، وكان حرمها أول حرم جامعي مختلط في المملكة. وبدأت الجامعة بوقف تُقدَّر قيمته بنحو 10 مليارات دولار، وتشغّل الحاسوب الفائق «شاهين» الذي كان في وقت سابق الأسرع في الشرق الأوسط. وأصبحت كاوست لاحقاً القاعدة البحثية الرئيسية للحوسبة والذكاء الاصطناعي في المملكة، وأطلقت عام 2024 مراكز تميز، من بينها مركز للذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي."},"entities":["KAUST"],"figures":[{"label":"initial endowment","label_ar":"الوقف الأولي","value":10,"unit":"USD bn"}],"sources":[{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Science_and_Technology","publisher":"Wikipedia","title":"King Abdullah University of Science and Technology","published":null},{"url":"https://saudipedia.com/en/king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology-kaust","publisher":"Saudipedia","title":"King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)","published":null}],"verification":"verified","urls":{"en":"https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/kaust-opens-2009","ar":"https://cicadaconsultancy.online/ar/news/kaust-opens-2009","markdown_en":"https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/kaust-opens-2009.md","markdown_ar":"https://cicadaconsultancy.online/ar/news/kaust-opens-2009.md"},"image":"https://cicadaconsultancy.online/images/articles/kaust-opens-2009.jpg"}}