DeepFest 2026 — live coverage

Live updates, photos and breaking news from DeepFest 2026.

• Arabic AI stopped being a research programme and became a distribution business
• Agentic AI was the most common pitch at LEAP, and two studies at the same event found the returns lagging
• Sovereignty stopped being a policy word at LEAP and became a product specification
• DeepFest fills its floor with 120 AI brands and 180 speakers
• PwC finds Saudi firms ahead on AI gains and short on returns
• Cerebras, PwC and Adobe executives join the DeepFest speaker roster
• SDAIA sets an AI-first design rule for Saudi public services
• QSS and UK's Humanoid open a Riyadh showroom, aim for 10,000 robots
• AGIBOT brings its full humanoid lineup and a rental model to Riyadh
• DeepFest builds its 2026 programme around live demonstrations
• Cerebras and Blaize take first-time stands at DeepFest
• OmniOps brings sovereign inference and observability updates to DeepFest 2026
• Luma AI puts an Arabic interface on its creative platform
• HUMAIN takes a stake in Arabic.AI and Tarjama
• The LEAP 2026 announcements TechScoop is tracking
• Velaura AI secures $110M Series a at $1B+ valuation for energy-efficient AI computing
• AI Geo Navigators unveils MIRSAD hazard platform at LEAP 2026
• Cloudera unveils anywhere cloud with zero-trust governance at LEAP 2026
• BIOSTAR launches EdgeComp Jetson Thor Systems at DeepFest 2026
• HUMAIN and Applied Intuition to deploy national autonomous trucking network
• Together AI and HUMAIN to build 250MW data center in Saudi Arabia
• Unifonic unveils agentic AI customer experience strategy at LEAP 2026
• Microsoft brings HUMAIN's Arabic AI models to global platforms
• Saudi Arabia launches SAMAI 2 AI procurement across 11 ministries
• AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN launch live AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
• Oracle and AMD partner on 50,000 MI450 GPU supercluster at DeepFest 2026
• Accenture to unveil sovereign AI strategy research at LEAP 2026
• MOZN expands enterprise AI focus at LEAP 2026 following HUMAIN investment
• Link Development launches Frontier Ascent agentic AI operating model at LEAP 2026
• Horizontal digital debuts agentic AI concierge with Salesforce at LEAP 2026
• Cloudflare spotlights agentic AI infrastructure and security at LEAP 2026
• IBM and Ejada Systems use AI agent Bob to accelerate enterprise modernization in Saudi Arabia
• SDAIA opens DeepFest 2026 with speakers from 17 countries
• AWS launches free AI academy and hackathon at LEAP 2026
• IFS and Microsoft showcase real-world industrial AI applications at LEAP 2026
• Think unveils Think fabric at LEAP 2026 to optimize bare-metal AI compute
• Data Dynamics launches enterprise 2.0.5 at LEAP 2026 to solve AI data governance bottleneck
• HUMAIN and KORA co-develop AI-native Linux OS for 2027 launch
• HUMAIN and MinIO partner to build AI-native data fabric at LEAP 2026
• AMD, MCIT and DCO launch open AI developer ecosystem at LEAP 2026
• HUMAIN and DataVolt break ground on 100MW AI data center at NEOM
• AWS to launch Saudi cloud region in December 2026 with HUMAIN AI zone
• LEAP 2026 rescheduled to August amid regional conflict