Lebanon & World Technology News
AI news from the Middle East and beyond: new models, regional AI investment and sovereign AI projects, and what they mean for Gulf and Lebanese businesses.
Artificial IntelligenceGoogle released a fast, low-cost image model and a video-generation model in preview, pricing images at $0.034 per 1,000 and video at…
Artificial IntelligenceMistral released Robostral Navigate, an 8B embodied model that guides robots through complex spaces from one RGB camera and plain-language prompts.
Artificial IntelligencexAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, built for coding and agentic work, trained alongside Cursor and priced at $2 and $6…
Artificial IntelligenceNVIDIA says its open Nemotron 3 Ultra model leads on performance at lower cost than top closed models, aided by a LangChain…
Artificial IntelligenceAnthropic made Sonnet 5 the default in its Claude Code tool, pairing a one-million-token context window with promotional pricing through August.
Artificial IntelligenceAnthropic returned its Fable 5 model to global availability on July 1, days after U.S. export controls on the model were lifted.
Artificial IntelligenceNew GPT-Live voice models let ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time, making interruptions and turn-taking feel closer to a real…
Artificial IntelligenceOpenAI's new GPT-5.6 family splits into three tiers — a frontier reasoner, a cheaper everyday model, and a speed-focused option — released…