Saudi AI business registrations rose 31% in a year, ministry says
Saudi Arabia’s Commerce Ministry said registrations for AI activities exceeded 24,000 in the third quarter of 2026.
Event / data period: 2026-10-12
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Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce published its third-quarter business bulletin on October 12. It said commercial registrations for artificial-intelligence activities rose 31% year on year to more than 24,000; cloud-computing registrations grew 35% to more than 7,000, and cybersecurity registrations rose 22% to more than 11,000.
The ministry also reported more than 50,000 commercial registrations issued during the quarter and 1.2 million establishments after 10% growth over five years. These are ministry registry counts, not measures of revenue, active firms or AI adoption.
Data
Q3 commercial-registration indicators
Counts and annual changes reported by the Commerce Ministry for Q3 2026.
- AI-activity registrations
- ≥24,000 count
- 2026-09-30 · Observed
- AI registrations annual change
- 31 percent
- 2026-09-30 · Observed
- Cloud-computing registrations
- ≥7,000 count
- 2026-09-30 · Observed
- Cybersecurity registrations
- ≥11,000 count
- 2026-09-30 · Observed
Methodology
“More than” is represented as a lower bound; percentage changes are year-on-year as stated in the bulletin.
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Subjects and places
Subject proposals
- Business enterpriseSuggested
- Subject suggested from the title or summary: business registrationsmc.gov.sa ↗
- Artificial intelligenceSuggested
- Subject suggested from the title or summary: AImc.gov.sa ↗
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- Saudi Arabia · Place role: Coverage · Place type: Country or area · Location precision: RegionalEvidence
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