Egypt signs agreements with French, UK companies for AI projects

Three foreign artificial intelligence outfits are closing in on agreements with the Ministry of Communications and IT, according to a ministry statement. The agreements include a letter of intent with France’s TheraPanacea to use AI to develop radiotherapy and the evaluation of immunotherapy protocols for cancer patients. The ministry also signed an MoU with UK’s InstaDeep to use AI to create enterprise solutions as well as a letter of intent with France’s Teklia to develop a joint project that supports Arabic in automated extraction of information, semantic processing, and the indexing of scanned documents.