UAE AI K2
Will Knight, Wired, The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny but Powerful AI Model, 9 Sep 1015 “It is not a complete large language model but rather a model...
Understanding AI
References (briefly) religious themes and AI in this piece from The Atlantic + nice graphic) Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works,...
Indonesia AI
An important development opening up AI interfaces across different Indonesian contexts: Meanwhile, in Indonesia: "This latest model operates in Bahasa Indonesia, the country’s national language, as well as five...
UAE AI Arabic model launched
Reuters, UAE launches Arabic language AI model as Gulf race gathers pace, 21 May 2025 “Falcon Arabic, developed by Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), aims to capture...
AI, Islam, LLMs and Data Harvesting
“This data harvesting already raises red flags around misinformation, bias, harmful outputs, and the processing of personal data. But when that training data comes from platforms that already fail to moderate content,...
Indigenous AI
This is a slight digression, but this subject is also relevant in discussions across LLM/SLM AI development in Muslim contexts. How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their...
West African AI Models
Ryan Browne, CNBC, Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models, 26 Nov 2024 “Orange plans to start by rolling out AI models that incorporate two...
Qat/cat AI
Some confusion here on AI regarding qat The perils of AI and the misinterpretation/misrendering of qat (I don't think feline readers need be concerned)....
Arabic LLMs
The National, Google expects more Arabic LLMs to emerge as it launches $15m fund to help AI localisation, 1 Nov 2024 “Google expects more Arabic large language models to emerge in the...