About
Middle East AI Tracker is a daily digest of artificial intelligence research and news from the GCC region — covering universities, research institutes, government authorities, and industry players shaping the region's AI landscape.
What we cover
- MBZUAI — Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi
- KAUST — King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- TII — Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi (home of Falcon LLM)
- G42 — UAE's leading AI and cloud computing company
- SDAIA — Saudi Data and AI Authority
- Inception / IIAI — Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi
- Khalifa University — Abu Dhabi university with strong AI and engineering programs
- arXiv — Preprint papers with GCC author affiliations
- The National — UAE English-language media
Methodology
Articles are crawled daily from institution websites, RSS feeds, and arXiv. Each article is summarized and scored for importance (1–5) by Gemini AI:
- 5 — Major announcement (new model, partnership, funding)
- 4 — Significant research or product launch
- 3 — Notable news or paper
- 2 — Routine update
- 1 — Low signal
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