This week's top stories — 17-23 Aug
This was the week that the UAE’s Ministry of Education reconfirmed plans to begin AI classes in schools next week and that 1,000 teachers have been specially trained over the summer for the task!
In other news, Presight hosted its first bootcamp in Abu Dhabi for the Presight AI-Startup Accelerator; the UAE AI Camp drew to a close after engaging 34,000 participants from all walks of life; and the Department of Health Abu Dhabi announced the availability of AI-powered genetic screening for newborns.
Here are this weeks biggest AI news stories!
Monday, August 18th
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🔥MBZUAI benchmark exposes AI vision agent flaws
Leading models score just 45% success rate in vision analysis tests
🔥Morocco's Hypeo AI begins Pre-Seed fund raising
Renew Capital backs Hypeo AI influencer marketing platform
Tuesday, August 19th
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🔥 UAE AI Camp attracts 34,000 participants
UAE AI Camp 7th edition delivers 70 workshops across key sectors
🔥 Tarjama&'s Pronoia LLM to power Ask Aqaba assistant
Arabic-first Ask Aqaba chatbot to targets 6 million annual visitors
Wednesday, August 20th
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🔥 UAE deploys 1,000 school teachers for AI curriculum
One million students are expected to start school in the UAE next week
🔥 Presight AI-Startup Accelerator holds first bootcamp
Transformative three-day programme to help scale real-world AI solutions
Thursday, August 21st
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🔥 Google AI Mode to soon be available across MENA
Google expands AI Mode to mobile users in 180 countries including MENA
Friday, August 22nd
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🔥 UAE finance institute partners to explore banking use cases
EIF partners with HSBC, Al Maryah Community Bank, Core42 & Presight