KAUST Research Proposal

The document proposes a partnership between KAUST AI center and Thiqah to collaborate on research and development that can help drive economic growth in Saudi Arabia. The partnership would leverage each organization's strengths, with KAUST providing research expertise and Thiqah providing industry knowledge and commercialization capabilities. Potential areas of collaboration include developing Arabic language models, optimization algorithms, and patent portfolio. The proposal outlines roles for each partner including sharing resources like researchers, compute infrastructure, and data. Any intellectual property or publications would be jointly owned. The timeline proposes signing an agreement in 2022 and commercializing technologies by 2024 to help realize Saudi Arabia's 2030 vision.

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Partnership Proposal
for KAUST Research
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Introduction

The Objective

Strategic partnership between KAUST AI By leveraging the research expertise of

center and Thiqah achieve the Kingdom's KAUST and the industry knowledge of
2030 vision of diversifying the economy Thiqah, we aim to collaboratively
through R&D research. develop technologies and patent
portfolio that can help drive economic
growth in the Kingdom.
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Potential Opportunity
The partnership we envision would be a robust, long-term collaboration that would bring together our
respective strengths to achieve our shared goals.

PhD Students Internship Opportunities at

THIQAH R&D
Partnership
Opportunity

Research Labs Collaborative research

between THIQAH and KAUST
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R&D Current area of interest

Arabic Large Language Models and Optimization

Arabic LLM Optimization

Arabic is the 5th most spoken language Optimization and algorithmic decision
in the world while it’s still considered a making are one the areas that haven’t
low resource language in terms of the been disrupted by the scaling direction
amount of publicly available data or yet and are still not widely accessible to
research conducted. the industry.
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Roles and responsibilities

Aiming for a robust partnership

KAUST Senior researchers, Compute

(Shaheen)
Proposed Roles
and
responsibilities

THIQAH Data, researchers,

commercialization
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Ownership model
Shared returns and responsibilities

Patents Shared ownership

Proposed Published collaboratively

ownership Papers

Commercializatio Shared ownership

n revenue
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Proposed Timeline
THIQAH is committed to make this a priority for the the year of 2032

Sign an MoU and

Q2 Q2-3 Building the technology Q4 Commercialization
prepare

• Prepare data • Phase 1: domain specific • Continue the R&D activities

• Prepare infrastructure GPT2.5 (LegalGPT) • Heavier focus on
• Phase 2: Scale to additional commercialization
domains with a larger model
GPT3.5
• Phase 3: work on contributing
to this field by building a better
algorithm with focus on the
Arabic language
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