Saudi Arabia signs artificial intelligence agreements

The agreements followed the announcement of Saudi Arabia's National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence, launched during the Global AI Summit Saudi Arabia has signed a series of partnership agreements with international tech companies to advance artifical intelligence (AI) in the kingdom. The agreements, which were rigned at the virtual Global AI Summit held in Riyadh, are underpinned by Saudi Arabia's newly-launched National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence (NSDAI). Saudi Arabia's National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China's Huawei to enable strategic cooperation on the kingdom's National AI Capability Development Program. Under the MoU, Huawei will support the NCAI to train Saudi AI engineers and students, and to address Arabic language AI-related capabilities. NCAI and Huawei will also explore the creation of an AI Capability Platform to localise technology solutions.