About
GCC AI Research is a daily digest of artificial intelligence research and news from the Gulf Cooperation Council region — covering universities, research institutes, government authorities, and industry players shaping the region's AI landscape.
Updated twice daily. Weekly newsletter every Monday. Public API available.
Sources covered
Research Institutions
- MBZUAI — Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi
- KAUST — King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- TII — Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi (home of Falcon LLM)
- Inception / IIAI — Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi
- Khalifa University — Abu Dhabi
- QCRI — Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha
- Qatar Foundation — Doha
Government & Industry
Media
Academic
- arXiv — cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.CV, cs.IR, cs.RO, stat.ML — filtered for GCC author affiliations
How it works
The pipeline runs automatically twice daily (08:00 and 20:00 GST):
- Collect — RSS feeds, institution websites (Playwright), and arXiv API
- Summarize & score — Gemini AI generates a 4-sentence summary and importance score (1–5)
- Embed — Gemini embeddings pushed to Cloudflare Vectorize for semantic search
- Sync — New articles synced to Cloudflare D1 (SQLite)
Importance scoring:
- 5 — Major announcement (new model, large funding, national policy)
- 4 — Significant research or product launch
- 3 — Notable news worth tracking
- 2 — Routine update
- 1 — Low signal
Tech stack
- Frontend — Astro SSR, Tailwind CSS, deployed on Cloudflare Pages
- API — Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript)
- Database — Cloudflare D1 (SQLite)
- Search — Cloudflare Vectorize (768-dim Gemini embeddings)
- Pipeline — Python, GitHub Actions (2× daily)
- AI — Gemini 2.5 Flash for summarization, Gemini Embedding 001 for vector search
- Newsletter — Resend, sent every Monday
Public API
Read-only. No auth required.
GET /api/articles?week=2026-W12&min_score=3
GET /api/articles?source=MBZUAI&limit=20
GET /api/articles?tag=LLM&limit=30
GET /api/articles?month=2026-03
GET /api/articles/[id]
GET /api/search?q=arabic+language+model
GET /api/tags
GET /api/sources
GET /api/weeks
GET /api/months
FAQ
How accurate are the summaries?
Summaries are generated by Gemini AI and reflect the article content. They include a "Why it matters" sentence contextualizing the article within the GCC AI landscape. Scores are also AI-generated and should be treated as directional signal, not ground truth.
Why focus on the GCC?
The Gulf Cooperation Council is home to some of the world's most ambitious national AI strategies and rapidly growing research institutions. MBZUAI, TII, and KAUST publish significant work that deserves dedicated coverage outside of general AI news.
Can I suggest a source?
Yes — email [email protected] with the source URL and why it's relevant.
Is there an RSS feed?
Yes — /rss.xml for all sources, plus per-topic RSS at /rss/[tag].xml.