AI in Oman
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Reporting on the artificial intelligence, cloud, and software stack being built in Oman — for founders and technology teams tracking which platforms, funding rounds, and infrastructure decisions are moving revenue in the Sultanate.
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Saleh Al Tamami traded a law firm desk for car detailing and IT consulting before co-founding Mamun, the Muscat fintech that pioneered equity crowdfunding in Oman and now settles trade finance flows as far away as Hong Kong.
By Editorial Team
Oman's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has opened a public consultation on draft technical rules requiring connected vehicles to keep data, cybersecurity controls, and emergency call routing inside the Sultanate.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
Musandam Governorate has launched a bilingual GIS portal mapping public facilities and tourism sites, a small but telling step toward the AI, IoT, and digital-twin tools officials say are coming next.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
Ooredoo Oman has switched on Gemini-powered AI tools inside Google Workspace for local enterprises and SMEs, becoming one of the first Omani telecoms to sell generative AI as a bundled, locally billed business service.
By Omar Al-Riyami
Rihal has quietly grown from an Omani data-migration outfit into a 300-person enterprise SaaS company serving PDO, Omantel, and Bank Muscat, backed by a $15 million Series A round.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
From a UK-accredited MSc in Data Science at GCET to Muscat bootcamps and DataMites' online certification, here are 10 AI and tech courses with open enrollment in Oman this August 2026.
By Samir Al-Balushi
Oman has completed 26 of 30 initiatives under its National E-Commerce Plan 2022-2027, with digital skills, national addressing and eKYC systems still to come before the deadline.
By Editorial Team
Nine AI and tech roles are open in Oman right now, from a Muscat drone-AI startup's CTO search to remote AI-training gigs paying up to $100 an hour.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
From a US export-control order that disabled Anthropic's newest models for 18 days to a custom OpenAI chip and a RO 1 million Omani tech fund, here are the five AI stories from June 2026 that matter most for the Sultanate.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
How Hatim Moosa Al Abri and Almuhannad Al Balushi turned five years as Omantel colleagues into ZabonEx, a food-waste forecasting SaaS that raised $100,000 and is eyeing the GCC.
By Samir Al-Balushi
Four brothers from Nizwa turned a lockdown-era messaging habit into SafaQat, an Omani procurement SaaS now backed by the Future Fund of Oman with nearly 2,500 users and regional expansion plans.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
Oman's state-backed bus maker Karwa Motors has signed an MoU with local IoT startup eMushrif to bring AI-powered tracking, safety and fleet management to national bus fleets.
By Editorial Team
National Bank of Oman wrapped up its second Fintech Accelerator cohort on June 25, graduating six startups — from AI-driven credit decisioning to Sharia-compliant wealth management — that together secured up to $1.8 million in investment.
By Dr. Khalid Al-Rashdi
From Oman's Royal Decree establishing a 104,000 sqm AI Special Zone to Google's billion-user AI Search and Anthropic's dynamic workflows, May 2026 was a month of structural change. Here's what every Omani business and developer needs to know.
By Surah Al-Balushi
The Central Bank of Oman will waive all local digital transfer fees for retail customers and SMEs from July 1, 2026 — a direct cost cut for every business and individual banking in the Sultanate.
By Editorial Team
Majid Al Amri left a decade in oil and gas to build Thawani Pay, now Oman's only Forbes Fintech 50 company and the first Omani fintech to hold a Visa credit card license.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
Oman's first cohort of 30 national cybersecurity leaders graduated this week, as new market data confirms the sultanate's security sector is on track to hit $214 million by 2031.
By Editorial Team
Founded in Muscat in 2021, Fascano has built a cloud platform powering 2,000+ restaurants and cafés across 6 countries and processing 70 million orders. Its $10 million April 2026 round, backed by the Oman Investment Authority, marks its third funding milestone and signals a major push into the wider MENA market.
By Surah Al-Balushi
From free government bootcamps to UK-accredited master's degrees on Muscat campuses, here is every AI and data science program currently open for enrollment in Oman.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
From PhazeRo's triple hiring push to Canonical's open-source roles in Muscat, here are 11 active AI and tech positions in Oman you can apply for today.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
On 2 June 2026, MTCIT launched Sas for Excellence, offering qualifying Omani tech companies up to RO 1 million in financing, wage subsidies for 40 staff, and priority access to government contracts, with a focus on AI and cybersecurity.
By Surah Al-Balushi
Seven autonomous XCMG machines are laying asphalt on a major Dhofar highway — marking Oman's debut of AI-driven construction in public infrastructure.
By Editorial Team
Oman's sovereign wealth fund achieved a 10.3x capital return and 68% annual IRR from its partial exit of Crusoe, a $10 billion AI infrastructure company backed by Microsoft and NVIDIA, cementing OIA as one of the world's top-performing sovereign funds.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
April 2026 brought a wave of major AI model launches, a landmark AI zone announcement from Oman, and Google's most ambitious enterprise AI push yet. Here is everything that matters.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik signed Royal Decree No. 50/2026 on April 30, 2026, establishing Oman's first AI Special Economic Zone in Seeb, Muscat. Here is what it covers, who it targets, and what the inaugural investor has already committed.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
From a Muscat bedroom to seven MENA markets in under a year: how Saif Al-Essai and Khalifa Manaa built Sampo AI, broke Oman's funding record, and are rewriting how e-commerce businesses price their products.
By Dr. Khalid Al-Rashdi
After years working at Schlumberger in oil fields, Azzan Al-Kindi co-founded Rihal in Muscat. Four years later, it is the third fastest-growing tech company in the Middle East, with a Series A underway and 300-plus Omani professionals on the team.
By Surah Al-Balushi
Ahmed Alghadani and Dr. Ahmed Albadi co-founded Byanat in Muscat in April 2022, building an AI observability platform for telecom operators and data centers. By February 2025, they had raised a Pre-Series A round led by Golden Gate Ventures and opened offices in Riyadh and Doha.
By Surah Al-Balushi
Founded in Muscat in July 2024, Sampo AI closed Oman's largest-ever pre-seed round of $750,000 just six months after launch, building AI-powered dynamic pricing tools for MENA e-commerce retailers across seven countries.
By Omar Al-Riyami
Omantel's new AI Centre of Excellence selects five Omani startups for its inaugural cohort, pairing them with live infrastructure, real data environments, and commercial access across telecom, energy, and government.
By Omar Al-Riyami
