HUMAIN to launch Saudi-designed AI PCs in October
Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered AI devices to target students and enterprises
#SaudiArabia #AIPC- HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s new national artificial intelligence company, plans to make its Qualcomm-powered AI notebook computers commercially available in October, according to a LinkedIn post from CEO Tareq Amin. The Edge Devices team of the Riyadh-based firm designed the devices running the latest ALLaM large language models natively on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite chipsets, delivering massive performance gains and significant cost reductions for customers. The HUMAIN CEO will join Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii later this month to announce the new devices, which will be targeted at students and enterprises across the MENA region.
SO WHAT? - The development of Saudi Arabia’s first AI PC was announced during LEAP25 by SDAIA and Qualcomm. HUMAIN newly formed Edge Devices team took over the project and now the company’s employees all receive the new branded AI notebook computers on joining. Integrated with the ALLaM large language model and built with Qualcomm chipsets to deliver sovereign AI at the edge. Although other vendors are expected to ramp up AI PC sales in the region, a key differentiator for HUMAIN AI PC’s is that they will ship integrated with the ALLaM Arabic LLM.
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Public Investment Fund-owned HUMAIN, plans to make its Qualcomm-powered AI PCs commercially available in October, according to a LinkedIn post from CEO Tareq Amin. The announcement will be made formally by Amin and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon at the upcoming Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii from 23-25 September,
HUMAIN AI PCs will target students and enterprises in the Middle East and Africa. The Saudi-designed AI PC runs advanced Arabic large language models natively on Qualcomm chipsets offering accelerated performance. The devices are also expected to provide an advantageous price point compared to cloud-dependent AI computing solutions for enterprise users.
Every new HUMAIN employee already receives the company’s AI PC on joining, with the company demonstrating confidence in the technology by making it part of their welcome kit for new staff members.
The planned commercial launch builds upon February's prototype announcement at LEAP25, where Qualcomm and Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) unveiled the ALLaM AI PC integrating Saudi Arabia's national language model.
HUMAIN will market the very first AI laptop designed designed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, showcasing Saudi innovation.
The original AI PC prototype unveiled by SDAIA in February was integrated with a 7 billion parameter ALLaM model and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chipsets, providing sovereign AI capabilities with seamless hybrid cloud access when required for complex computational tasks.
Qualcomm is expected to announce availability of new Snapdragon Elite chipsets at the eight edition of its Snapdragon Summit later this month.
ZOOM OUT - February's LEAP25 event in Riyadh marked a breakthrough when US semiconductor company Qualcomm and Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) unveiled the ALLaM AI PC prototype. The world-first fully integrated AI computer combined SDAIA’s ALLaM 7B large language model with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite platform, delivering sovereign AI capabilities at the edge with seamless hybrid cloud access. The prototype announcement at LEAP featured H.E. Abdullah Alswaha Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Tareq Amin, now CEO of HUMAIN; Yaser Al-Onaizan, CEO of the National Center for AI (NCAI), and Qualcomm CFO and COO Akash Palkiwalla.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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