Tareq Amin: Humain built its foundation model from scratch without distillation
Tareq Amin · Inside Saudi Arabia’s AI Ambition: Tareq Amin on Building a New Tech Superpower · Nov 4, 2025 · at 8:53
Tareq Amin is the CEO of Humain, Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI entity. He explains how Humain developed its own foundational model to build internal technical capabilities.
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“So we ended up building a foundation model, and I'll tell you the reason we did this. We built it from the scratch. It was not distilled of any open source tool.”
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