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title: "AI in Saudi Arabia: News & Milestones"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/topics/ai"
language: "en"
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# AI in Saudi Arabia: News & Milestones

How Saudi Arabia went from its first national research centres to sovereign Arabic language models and national AI compute: the models, the institutions behind them and the deals that fund them.

- 2026-09-03 — [HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a 428bn-parameter Arabic model built with MiniMax](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-m3-arabic-frontier-model-2026)
- 2026-07-09 — [HUMAIN and Canada's Cohere agree to collaborate on AI compute and sovereign models](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-cohere-partnership-2026)
- 2026-06-01 — [HUMAIN to bring Nvidia DRIVE Hyperion robotaxi platform to Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-nvidia-drive-hyperion-robotaxi-2026)
- 2026-05-21 — [HUMAIN names Accenture its strategic reinvention and AI partner in Saudi Arabia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-accenture-strategic-partner-2026)
- 2026-04-07 — [Saudi AI company registrations reach 19,638 in 2025, up 240% since 2021](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/saudi-ai-company-registrations-2025)
- 2026-03-10 — [Aramco reports $5.3bn technology value for 2025, $2.6bn from AI](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-ai-technology-value-2025-results)
- 2026-02-10 — [HUMAIN unveils agentic HUMAIN OS at PIF Private Sector Forum](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-os-pif-private-sector-forum-2026)
- 2025-10-27 — [HUMAIN unveils HUMAIN One, which it calls the first AI operating system](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-one-ai-os-2025)
- 2025-08-25 — [HUMAIN launches Arabic chat app powered by ALLaM 34B](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-chat-allam-34b-launch-2025)
- 2025-08-06 — [Saudi Arabia hosts OpenAI open models via HUMAIN-Groq partnership](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/openai-gpt-oss-humain-groq-2025)
- 2025-05-12 — [Crown Prince launches HUMAIN, PIF's full-stack AI company](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-launched-2025)
- 2025-03-06 — [SDAIA lists ALLaM 7B on Hugging Face](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/allam-7b-hugging-face-2025)
- 2024-07-01 — [KAUST launches Center of Excellence on Generative AI](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/kaust-genai-centre-of-excellence-2024)
- 2024-05-21 — [SDAIA and IBM launch ALLaM Arabic LLM on watsonx](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/allam-on-ibm-watsonx-2024)
- 2024-03-04 — [Aramco unveils Metabrain, a 250bn-parameter industrial AI model](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/aramco-metabrain-2024)
- 2017-10-25 — [Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to humanoid robot Sophia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/sophia-robot-citizenship)
- 2009-09-23 — [KAUST opens as Saudi Arabia's graduate research university](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/kaust-opens-2009)
- 1977-11-29 — [Saudi Arabia creates national science center that became KACST](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/kacst-established-1977)

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