{"id":1196,"date":"2025-02-23T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2025-02-23T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:58:18","slug":"saudi-arabias-tech-revolution-saudi-arabia-reinforces-its-technological-leadership-with-14-9-billion-investment-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Tech Revolution: Saudi Arabia Reinforces its Technological Leadership with $14.9 Billion Investment in Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Key Points:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Saudi Arabia is heavily investing in AI and technology.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>LEAP 2025 has already secured nearly $15 billion in investments.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>This builds on previous years&#8217; successes with significant investment growth.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The conference highlights Saudi Arabia&#8217;s push to be a leader in the digital economy.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<\/strong> &#8211; The fourth edition of LEAP 2025 Tech Conference was kicked off in Riyadh (Sun, 9 Feb, 2025 \u2013 Wed, 12 Feb, 2025), attracting significant investments and strategic partnerships totaling over $14.9 billion on its first day. These investments focus on infrastructure and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology stated in a press release on its website that the first day of LEAP 2025 witnessed remarkable launches, investments, and strategic partnerships that bolster the Kingdom&#8217;s leadership in artificial intelligence, advanced technologies, and the global digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, Saudi Arabia attracted $14.9 billion in investments in artificial intelligence on the first day of the LEAP 2025 Technology Conference.<\/p>\n<p>This includes over $10.9 billion in quality investments in infrastructure and artificial intelligence, as well as funding rounds for Saudi Start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investments in Previous Editions of LEAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry&#8217;s website indicates that the total value of new launches and investments witnessed at the LEAP conference in its previous three editions reached $29.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The value of new launches and investments in the previous edition (2024) was $13.4 billion, according to the same source.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth edition of the conference began on Sunday in the Malham region, north of Riyadh, under the theme &#8220;Towards New Horizons,&#8221; as stated by the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The conference runs from February 9th to 12th and features over a thousand international speakers and technology experts, 1,800 exhibiting entities, and around 680 start-ups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>(Source: Arabic News Agencies)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\n<strong>Ahmad Suhaib Nadvi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Email: info@al-emam.org<br \/>\nGlobal Islamic Horizon<br \/>\nAl-Emam Al-Nadwi Education &amp; Awakening Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points: Saudi Arabia is heavily investing in AI and technology. LEAP 2025 has already secured nearly $15 billion in investments. This builds on previous years&#8217; successes with significant investment growth. The conference highlights Saudi Arabia&#8217;s push to be a leader in the digital economy. &nbsp; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia &#8211; The fourth edition of LEAP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middle-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gih.al-emam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}