RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday launched the “SMAI 2” initiative to strengthen nationwide capabilities in knowledge and synthetic intelligence, reinforcing the Kingdom’s concentrate on human capital improvement and digital transformation.
The initiative was launched by Minister of Training and Chairman of the Board of King Saud College Yousef Al-Bunyan, and President of the Saudi Information and Synthetic Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, through the Worldwide Convention on Capability Constructing in Information and Synthetic Intelligence (ICAN2026), held at King Saud College in Riyadh.
SMAI 2 is being applied in partnership with 11 authorities ministries and goals to allow public sector staff to undertake synthetic intelligence applied sciences responsibly, whereas enhancing productiveness and operational effectivity throughout authorities entities.
In the course of the launch, Al-Bunyan and Al-Ghamdi offered the SMAI 2 constitution to representatives from a number of ministries, together with Well being, Finance, Media, Justice, Trade and Mineral Assets, Transport and Logistics Providers, Training, Human Assets and Social Growth, Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, Sports activities, and Vitality.
The initiative seeks to realize its aims by specialised coaching and consciousness packages designed to construct nationwide capabilities and put together certified expertise to maintain tempo with fast technological developments and evolving labor market calls for.
SMAI 2 builds on the success of the primary part of this system, “SMAI 1,” which enabled greater than 1.1 million Saudis to learn from accredited synthetic intelligence training and coaching packages.




