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- It will bring a new curriculum on AI in Arabic, training it through the Maharat min Google program and Coursera and focusing on such priorities as prompt engineering and responsible AI.
- Women, youth, migrants, and people from the rural area in different nations will benefit from training grants to Village Capital and Raspberry Pi Foundation for the introduction of AI in schools through the youth at 11 to 14 years of age.
- During AI Connect, Ruth Porat, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google said that inclusion of AI education and infrastructure for MENA, AI could add up to $320 billion to the regional economy by 2030.
Google unveiled its two largest AI undertakings in the Middle East and North Africa, known as the AI Opportunity Initiative, in Dubai. This program entails half a million individuals to gain AI know-how, finance AI research, and provide AI tools with Google.org promising $15 million in area grants over the course of the subsequent 7 years to make sure that the advances get to the people at the bottom.
It will bring a new curriculum on AI in Arabic, training it through the Maharat min Google program and Coursera and focusing on such priorities as prompt engineering and responsible AI. Also, Women, youth, migrants, and people from the rural area in different nations will benefit from training grants to Village Capital and Raspberry Pi Foundation for the introduction of AI in schools through the youth at 11 to 14 years of age.
Google’s investment also covers local Hawaiian innovation, with an Artificial Intelligence Research Fund to back healthcare, climate change, education, and a healthcare grant to launch startAD at New York University Abu Dhabi to develop AI for healthcare services for the needy. In the domain of AI technology update, Google’s Gemini personal assistant now supports Arabic “Gems,” a special experience for teens and Arabic image generation.
It comes as part of Google’s continued investment in the MENA: Google services contributed an estimated $12.8B to the UAE and Saudi Arabia last year and will reach $14.2B in 2024. During AI Connect, Ruth Porat, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google said that inclusion of AI education and infrastructure for MENA, AI could add up to $320 billion to the regional economy by 2030.
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