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LEAP 2026: Four rival chipmakers agreed to build Saudi Arabia's AI stack at once
Across four days in Riyadh, HUMAIN secured commitments from AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Cisco, and placed its Arabic language model in both Amazon's and Microsoft's catalogues. Assembling all of them in one week is the most instructive thing that happened at LEAP 2026.
Saudi Arabia and UAE Rank in Global Top 10 for AI-Enabled Finance, as New Index Redefines What It Means to Lead in AI
The fifth Global AI Competitiveness Index benchmarks 20 countries and 15 finance hubs on AI deployment in financial services — and the Gulf's rankings reveal where ambition ends and institutionalisation begins.