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Egypt’s national large language model trained on tens of millions of Arabic datasets intended as foundational AI infrastructure for local startups and companies.

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KANSIIME HAMZA: The Afro-Arab Youth Are Not Waiting for Permission: How Young Innovators Are Rewriting the Region’s Digital Future
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KANSIIME HAMZA: The Afro-Arab Youth Are Not Waiting for Permission: How Young Innovators Are Rewriting the Region’s Digital Future

The article highlights a surge in Afro-Arab digital innovation, noting Cairo-based Nanovate building Arabic AI solutions, Egypt launching the Karnak national LLM, and Mal raising a record $230M seed to build an AI-native Islamic digital bank.

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