As the demand for AI solutions keeps growing, startups are focusing on building more efficient and affordable infrastructure to run smart AI models. In exciting news, Saudi company Think has just announced closing a pre-seed funding round worth over $8 million. This makes it one of the largest early funding rounds for AI infrastructure companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Think, which is busy developing a new generation of smart, unified hardware and software infrastructure for AI, shared that this round is the biggest of its kind in the region's AI infrastructure and advanced technology sector to date.
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