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Updated 15 November 2026 · refreshed every Thursday
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- Models & launchesSaudi Arabia
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)HUMAIN says its Saudi-hosted full AI stack, including an unnamed 3 trillion parameter open-weight model, is planned for 15 December 2026. This is an announcement, not a released model or available download. The claimed 88% reduction in cost and token use has no published independent benchmark. HUMAIN+ training centre is planned to operate in Q1 2027. Thursday review should locate official model, access and licence evidence before any catalogue release entry.
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- 13 Nov 2026
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- 14 Nov 2026
- Models & launchesUnited Arab Emirates
MBZUAI Open Sources PAN 2 World Model
Read the story at Middle East AI News (opens in a new tab on middleeastainews.com)IFM at MBZUAI has open-sourced PAN 2, a world model that simulates text-described actions as video up to 20 seconds. Its 29B perceptual backbone, weights and training/inference code are available under Apache-2.0; third-party components keep their own licences. Arabic prompt support is not documented and long-term world consistency remains unresolved.
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- 11 Nov 2026
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- 12 Nov 2026
- Models & launchesUnited Arab Emirates
MBZUAI startup Apertix releases fast open-source decision model
Read the story at Middle East AI News (opens in a new tab on middleeastainews.com)Edge AI startup Apertix has open-sourced Cerno 9B, a compact model designed for high-speed agentic tasks and routing with lower latency than competitors.
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- 4 Nov 2026
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- 5 Nov 2026
- Models & launchesUAE
Jais 3 and an Arabic speech model released
Read the story at AIwire (opens in a new tab on hpcwire.com)MBZUAI and Inception42 released the Jais 3 family of open Arabic models alongside Jais Speech for Arabic speech recognition.
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- 16 Oct 2026
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