Category: AI/Chatbot

Family of compact Arabic-optimised language models and Arabic voice AI from an Arab-founded company working only on Arabic. Includes a small model built specifically for retrieval-augmented generation.

Arabic language model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, fluent in Modern Standard Arabic plus Gulf and Levantine dialects. Trained on 600 billion Arabic and multilingual tokens.

Arabic-first consumer chat app for iOS and Android built on ALLaM by HUMAIN, the AI company launched by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Designed Arabic-first rather than translated from English.

Arabic-first foundation model family trained from scratch on Arabic and English by Saudi Arabia’s SDAIA. Distributed through IBM watsonx and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry as well as Hugging Face.

Qatar’s Arabic-centric generative AI platform from the Qatar Computing Research Institute, covering chat, dialect-aware speech, image generation and Islamic-grounded question answering. Built end to end in Qatar on Arabic data.

Bilingual Arabic-English large language model family built by Inception, a G42 subsidiary in Abu Dhabi, with Cerebras and MBZUAI. Released open-weight and positioned as one of the strongest Arabic-first models available.

Mistral’s European AI assistant for work and code, formerly called Le Chat. Mistral publishes open-weight models alongside it and is headquartered in France, which matters for EU data-residency requirements.

Alibaba’s free multimodal assistant for chat, images, video and document analysis. The underlying Qwen models are open-weight and documented as supporting Arabic among 29 languages.