Artificial intelligence in Morocco and Africa, from dated public sources, with what we take from them.
The summaries are ours; the figures are those of the sources cited, which alone are responsible for them.
8 October 2026
Transcribing Darija is becoming a shared building block that any company building agents can use.
Working with the Ministry of Digital Transition, Mistral released on Hugging Face a model that transcribes Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects, Darija included, in real time. Its Apache 2.0 licence lets any company reuse it.
Source Hugging Face (official) ; Announcement: Le Brief, 29 September 2026
8 September 2026
The government lists an agentic assistant among its first solutions, so an agent that guides someone through a procedure is now part of public vocabulary.
In Rabat, the Ministry of Digital Transition reviewed progress on the roadmap, whose 2030 targets are 100 billion dirhams of added value, 50,000 jobs and 200,000 trained specialists. Its first solutions include a sovereign AI marketplace and Idarati AI, an agentic assistant for administrative procedures.
16 August 2026
The Fez agreement plans to encourage new startups, but we have not yet found any call open to young companies.
Four public interest groupings have been set up: Jazari Nucleus, for AI and high-performance computing, and three institutes for education, industry and the smart city. The industry institute goes back to an agreement signed in Fez on 10 March 2026 by three ministries and four universities.
Source Morocco World News (press), 16 August 2026 ; maroc.ma (official), 11 March 2026
16 April 2026
Large-scale hosting in Morocco is still under study, and it is one of the conditions for AI served from within the country.
An agreement starts the studies for Igoudar Dakhla, a group of green data centres aiming for 500 MW, with a sovereign part and a part open to private investors. The studies will settle governance, the business model and financing; no timetable has been published.
April 2026 (GITEX Africa, Marrakech; article of 13 April)
AI processors installed in Morocco would later make it possible to run models in the country for clients who require it, such as healthcare.
A memorandum of understanding signed at GITEX Africa by Nexus Core Systems, the Ministry of Digital Transition and AMDIE announces an AI computing centre in Nouaceur, followed by a second site. According to Hespress, it plans 12 billion dirhams over two phases and 36 MW by the end of 2027.
18 March 2026
AI computing is arriving on the continent, but the article gives no prices.
Cassava Technologies has begun rolling out an "AI Factory" in South Africa, built on Nvidia's platform. Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are named as next, with no date given.
12 January 2026
A CNDP framework on AI would apply to agents like ours, and we are following its preparation.
In Rabat, the ministry launched the "AI Made in Morocco" roadmap, with a joint research lab with Mistral AI and eight partner agreements. At the same event, the CNDP presented a responsible AI framework to protect personal data.
Source Hespress (press), 12 January 2026 ; Finances News Hebdo (press), 19 January 2026
12 December 2025
Public support for young digital companies goes mainly through funds and Technopark, and it requires a company that already exists.
The ministry announced 1.3 billion dirhams for the startup ecosystem, including 70 million dirhams for the Technopark network. On 21 November 2025 it had launched a scheme that puts 400 million dirhams into venture capital funds, alongside private investors.
Source Finances News Hebdo (press), 12 December 2025 ; maroc.ma (official), 24 November 2025
3 December 2025
Access to Toubkal goes through research; for a company, it would mean working jointly with a lab.
Morocco's first high-performance computing conference, SupercomputingAfrica 2025, took place at UM6P in Benguerir. Toubkal was presented there as Africa's fastest supercomputer, used mostly by researchers (climate, AI, materials, bioinformatics).