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Welcome to another week of AI for GCC. The region is moving fast, and every update brings new opportunities for people building, learning and investing in the future of technology.
- Gemini 3 launch and new reasoning capabilities
- Saudi Arabia expands sovereign AI power with a major Nvidia backed data center
- UAE and South Korea partner on the Stargate AI campus
- Why these developments matter for the Gulf and your AI roadmap
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Gemini 3 Launch
Google launched Gemini 3, the newest Gemini model that delivers deeper reasoning, stronger multimodal understanding and a much larger context window. Gemini 3 is available across Google products and for developers via Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and the new Antigravity agent platform. It powers AI Mode in Search for richer interactive results and introduces Deep Think for advanced reasoning in specialist workflows.
Why this matters for the Gulf. Gemini 3 raises the baseline for what regional teams can expect from cloud AI. It accelerates developer productivity, improves multimodal applications and expands the kinds of AI services enterprises and startups can offer customers.
- State of the art reasoning across text, images, video and code
- One million token context window for long documents and courses
- Deep Think mode for better accuracy on complex problems
- Developer access: AI Studio, Vertex AI, Gemini CLI and Antigravity
- Immediate integrations in Search and the Gemini app
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Saudi Arabia’s New AI Data Center
Nvidia and xAI confirmed that a new Saudi data facility with about 600,000 Nvidia GPUs will take Elon Musk’s xAI as its first customer. The project is led by Humain, a Public Investment Fund backed company that aims to expand national scale AI infrastructure with support from Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm. This move reinforces the Gulf’s growing position in sovereign AI development.
Source: CNBC
UAE and South Korea Join Forces
South Korea will work with the UAE on the Stargate initiative to build one of the world’s largest AI data center campuses. The first 1 gigawatt phase is led by G42 with partners OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and SoftBank. South Korea will contribute computing capacity, memory chips and energy systems as both nations deepen cooperation across AI investment and research.
Source: Reuters
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The Gulf continues to position itself as a global AI leader fueled by top tier infrastructure, advanced models and international alliances. If you want to build your AI skills, choose one small topic this week and practice for ten minutes each day. A little daily effort builds long term capability.
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