Thursday Deep Dive 25-Apr-24 🎧

1st LLM trained exclusively on Saudi data

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Join me on Thursday April 25th, at 12 PM KSA | 1PM UAE | 9AM GMT for Middle East AI News LIVE - THURSDAY DEEP DIVE, when we'll talk about what it takes to develop a large language model (LLM) from scratch and find out more about Watad’s Arabic-English bilingual LLM, which was trained exclusively on Saudi data sets.

Here’s next week’s THURSDAY DEEP DIVE.

This week’s hot topic

• What it takes to build a large language model from scratch

• The need for national, domain-specific LLMs

• Mulhem - Watad's 7 billion parameter Arabic/English LLM

• Saudi Arabia's AI ecosystem and Watad's future plans

This week’s guest

• Anton Alexander, Chief Technology Officer at Watad Energy & Communications, who is an accomplished AI engineer and high performance computing (HPC) expert. He leads Watad’s AI development team and built the computer systems to develop and train the company’s new Arabic/English LLM

Links

• First LLM trained exclusively on Saudi data sets (Middle East AI News)