This week's top stories — 13-19 July
Lucidya's $30 million funding round; Jumia brings voice commerce to Egypt
This was the week that Saudi Arabia CXM platform Lucidya announced its successful $30 million Series B round, the Kingdom’s largest AI funding round to-date.
In other news, MBZUAI just ended its biggest ever research internship; Jumia and Intella bring voice commerce to Egypt; Morocco confirms plans to build a network of AI centres of excellence across the country; the UAE has the greatest percentage of CAIOs globally according to a new report; and Dubai introduces classifications for AI usage in research and content.
Here are this weeks biggest AI news stories!
Sunday, July 13th
🔥 MBZUAI attracts record global internship applications
2,000 students compete for 57 internship places in Abu Dhabi
Monday, July 14th
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Tuesday, July 15th
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🔥 Lucidya raises $30M in Saudi Arabia's biggest AI round
Impact46 leads record investment in Saudi-based AI CXM platform
🔥 Wittify.ai raises $1.5M Pre-Seed funding for Arabic AI
Saudi investors back Arabic conversational AI platform
🔥 UAE leads global Chief AI Officer adoption - IBM, DFF report
33% of UAE organisations have appointed CAIOs versus 26% globally
Wednesday, July 16th
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🔥 Jumia Egypt launches Arabic voice ecommerce
Intella-Jumia partnership powers voice commerce in the Egyptian Dialect
🔥 Dubai launches human-AI collaboration classification
Dubai Crown Prince approves transparency initiative for AI-human collaboration
🔥 Morocco to create AI CoE network nationwide
Al Jazari Institute to bring digital transformation to Moroccan provinces
Thursday, July 17th
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🔥 Jordan completes key AI government data cleansing project
JICA partnership project processes 4.5 million government records
🔥 PGIM & ADGM Academy to launch RealAssetX lab
New lab to target tech for real estate, infrastructure and smart cities