# GCC AI Research

> Daily digest of AI research and news from the GCC region.
> Sources: MBZUAI, KAUST, G42, TII, SDAIA, Inception, Khalifa University, The National, QCRI, Qatar Foundation, arXiv (cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL / cs.CV)
> Updated daily. Newsletter every Monday.
> Built by 0xkaz — https://0xkaz.com

Sitemap: https://gcc-research.0xkaz.com/sitemap.xml
Full article dump: https://gcc-research.0xkaz.com/llms-full.txt

## What this site does
Tracks AI announcements, research papers, and industry news from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) institutions.
Articles are summarized by Gemini AI and scored for importance 1–5.
Semantic search powered by Cloudflare Vectorize (768-dim embeddings).

## Institutions tracked
- MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
- KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
- TII (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE) — home of Falcon LLM
- G42 (Abu Dhabi AI and cloud computing company)
- SDAIA (Saudi Data and AI Authority, Saudi Arabia)
- Inception / IIAI (Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
- Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
- The National (UAE English-language media)
- WAM (Emirates News Agency, UAE official news agency)
- SPA (Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia official news agency)
- Arab News (Saudi Arabia English-language newspaper)
- Gulf News (UAE English-language newspaper)
- Khaleej Times (UAE English-language newspaper)
- QCRI (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar) — part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- Qatar Foundation (Doha, Qatar) — research and education foundation
- arXiv — papers filtered for GCC/Middle East author affiliations

## 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

## Pages
- /                    This week's top stories (importance ≥ 3)
- /digest/[week]       Weekly archive (e.g. /digest/2026-W12)
- /digest              All past issues
- /article/[id]        Article detail with summary, tags, related articles
- /topics              All topics with article counts
- /topics/[tag]        Articles filtered by topic tag
- /source              All tracked institutions
- /source/[name]       Institution page with description and article list
- /country             GCC countries index
- /country/uae         UAE AI articles (MBZUAI, TII, G42, Khalifa, Inception)
- /country/saudi-arabia Saudi Arabia AI articles (KAUST, SDAIA)
- /models              GCC AI models directory (Falcon, Jais, AceGPT, ALLaM, SILMA, Fanar, Noor, AraBERT)
- /models/[slug]       Individual model page with specs, details, and related articles
- /researchers         Notable GCC AI researchers (22 researchers)
- /researchers/[slug]  Individual researcher page with bio, areas, and institution news
- /compare             Model comparison index — side-by-side comparisons of Arabic LLMs
- /compare/[slug]      Comparison page, e.g. /compare/falcon-vs-jais, /compare/jais-vs-acegpt
- /leaderboard         Institutions ranked by article count and avg importance score
- /search              Semantic search across all articles
- /subscribe           Newsletter signup
- /about               Methodology and data sources
- /rss.xml             RSS 2.0 feed (all sources, importance ≥ 3)
- /rss/[tag].xml       Per-topic RSS feed
- /sitemap.xml         Full sitemap
- /llms-full.txt       Full article dump for LLM ingestion

## Data shape
Each article has: title, url, source, published_date, summary (4 sentences incl. "Why it matters:"),
arabic_summary (MSA Arabic), importance_score (1-5), tags (JSON array), keywords (JSON array), week (ISO 8601).

## GCC AI Models covered
- Falcon (TII, UAE) — open-source LLM family, 7B to 180B
- Jais (MBZUAI/Inception, UAE) — bilingual Arabic-English LLM, 13B/30B
- AceGPT (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) — Arabic-instruction LLM based on Llama 2
- ALLaM (SDAIA/IBM, Saudi Arabia) — Arabic LLM for Vision 2030
- SILMA (Google/GCC, UAE) — Arabic-focused Gemma 2 variant
- Fanar (QCRI/Qatar Foundation, Qatar) — Qatar's flagship Arabic LLM, 8B
- Noor (SDAIA/SRMG, Saudi Arabia) — culturally-aware Arabic LLM, 1.5B
- AraBERT (MBZUAI/AUB, UAE) — pre-trained Arabic BERT model, most widely-used Arabic NLP foundation

## API (public, read-only)
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/articles?week=2026-W12&min_score=3
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/articles/[id]
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/search?q=arabic+llm
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/tags
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/sources
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/weeks
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/articles?country=uae&limit=50
GET https://gcc-research-api.sxg.workers.dev/api/articles?tag=LLM&limit=30