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Saudi Startup Autobia Secures $12 Million in Series A Funding Read the story at Arab News: Startups (opens in a new tab on arabnews.com)
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14 Nov 2026
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15 Nov 2026
Ooredoo to Host Major Digital Policy Conference in Doha Read the story at Middle East Tech Watch (opens in a new tab on meatechwatch.com)
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14 Nov 2026
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HUMAIN to launch 3 trillion parameter model in December Read the story at Middle East AI News (opens in a new tab on middleeastainews.com)
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13 Nov 2026
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AWS Report Ranks Saudi Arabia in Top Tier for Physical AI Read the story at Arab News: Technology (opens in a new tab on arabnews.com)
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12 Nov 2026
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World Summit AI Qatar
Doha · 15–16 Dec 2026
Where Fanar 2.0 launched last year.
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Event dates
15–16 Dec 2026
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Official source — qatar.worldsummit.ai (opens in a new tab on qatar.worldsummit.ai)
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Chat apps
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HUMAIN Chat
Chat apps · Saudi Arabia
Arabic-first chat on ALLaM 34B with dialect voice input and web search, hosted in-Kingdom.
Free
In the news
25 Aug 2025
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Official source — apps.apple.com (opens in a new tab on apps.apple.com)
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Date source — saudigazette.com.sa (opens in a new tab on saudigazette.com.sa)
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Model
IFM · MBZUAI
PAN 2
World modeling / video simulation · 29B perceptual backbone
UAE-developed world model simulating the outcome of text-described actions as video up to 20 seconds. IFM publishes weights and training/inference code under Apache-2.0; third-party components retain their own licences. Arabic prompt support is not documented. Requires self-hosting; not offered in Souq Playground or for purchase. Long-term world consistency remains an open challenge. News announcement: 11 November 2026, not a confirmed first-release date.
Open weights · Apache 2.0
News published
11 Nov 2026
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Official source — ifm.ai (opens in a new tab on ifm.ai)
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Date source — middleeastainews.com (opens in a new tab on middleeastainews.com)
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14 Nov 2026
Official blog · IFM (opens in a new tab on ifm.ai)Model card · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Model weights · Hugging Face (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)Code · GitHub (opens in a new tab on github.com)

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