Sovereign AI academy · United Arab Emirates
Train local.Fine-tune local.Own the model.
LLM Factory is a hands-on academy where engineers learn to fine-tune large language models on hardware that never leaves the country. Then they take the same stack back to their own organisations.
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One building, three businesses
A place to learn, a partner to deploy, and a studio for Arabic-first models
Academy
Hands-on LLM engineering courses on 34 aiDAPTIV+ workstations. Graduates leave certified and able to fine-tune a model on their own.
Enterprise deployment
We supply, install and support the same machines at the client's site, and run fine-tuning projects inside our Secure Core.
Own models
Arabic-first models for specific sectors, trained when the machines are idle and licensed with the hardware or through a private API.
The technology
How a desktop PC fine-tunes a 13-billion-parameter model
Full fine-tuning needs far more memory than a consumer GPU has. Phison aiDAPTIV+ adds a dedicated AI SSD that acts as an extension of GPU memory, so the training state that does not fit in 16 GB moves to a 320 GB cache.
Sources: Signal65 lab report for Phison, July 2025; ABS AI Training PC listing on Newegg. The memory figure is an approximation for full-parameter training with mixed precision.
The fleet
36 machines in three tiers, colour-coded in the building
- GPU
- RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB
- CPU
- Core Ultra 7 265KF
- RAM
- 32 GB DDR5-6000
- SSD
- 2 TB + AI100E 320 GB
One seat per learner in the Orbit Hall. Fine-tunes models up to 13B.
- GPU
- RTX 5090 32 GB
- CPU
- Core Ultra 7 265KF
- RAM
- 32 GB DDR5-6000
- SSD
- 2 TB + AI100E 320 GB
Semi-enclosed pods for advanced learners, capstone projects and client work.
- GPU
- 4 × RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB
- CPU
- Xeon W5-3535X
- RAM
- 512 GB DDR5 ECC
- SSD
- 2 TB aiDAPTIVCache + 4 × 2 TB
ABS Zaurion Pro in an air-gapped glass enclave. Client fine-tuning up to 70B and beyond.
Programs
From a first fine-tune to a certified team
Foundation bootcamp
From zero to your first fine-tuned 8B model, on your own seat.
AED 4,900Professional certification
Data preparation, full and LoRA fine-tuning, evaluation and on-premise deployment.
AED 14,500Corporate cohort
A private cohort that works on your organisation's own data inside the Secure Core.
AED 150,000 per cohortUniversity partnership
Credit-bearing LLM engineering courses and overnight research compute.
On requestIndicative prices for the Dubai flagship.
Universities
Labs, courses and research compute for students and faculty.
Government
Sovereign fine-tuning and staff upskilling, with data kept on-premise.
Large companies
Banks, energy, telecom and healthcare teams building private models.
SMEs
The lowest-cost path to a private model: one PC, one course, monthly support.
24 hours
The center works three shifts
Classes by day, client work in the evening, and our own model training overnight. The hardware is never idle for long.
Academy classes
Bootcamps, certification tracks and university labs across all 34 learner seats.
Evening cohorts and client jobs
Part-time professionals, plus fine-tuning projects running in the Secure Core.
Overnight model training
Idle machines train LLM Factory's own models and serve compute passes for alumni and researchers.
Roadmap
From one flagship to six cities across the GCC and the Levant
- 2026–27
Dubai flagship
The Orbit Hall opens, with training-partner terms agreed with Phison and ABS.
- 2028
Abu Dhabi
A second site near government and university clusters. First own models released.
- 2028–29
Riyadh
The largest GCC market, with Arabic models tuned for Saudi use.
- 2029–30
Doha · Kuwait City · Muscat · Amman
Franchise or joint-venture sites built on the same blueprint and curriculum.
Partners, universities and investors
Build the region's models here
We are raising a seed round for the Dubai flagship and signing founding university and government partners. Get in touch to see the full plan.