Saudi Arabia has launched Humain Chat, an Arabic AI app, to users in the Kingdom.
The chat is Humain’s first application in its AI suite and is powered by an Arabic model called ALLAM 34B and built in Saudi Arabia by Saudis.
Humain, an artificial intelligence company wholly own by the Public Investment Fund, was launched in May by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and aims to develop Arabic large language models and place the Kingdom as a global hub for AI innovation.
The app is available on iOS and Android devices as well as through a web browser and is expected to roll out to other Arabic speaking countries soon.
HUMAIN Chief Executive Tareq Amin said: “The launch of HUMAIN Chat is a point of pride for Saudi Arabia, marking a historic milestone in our mission to build sovereign AI that is both technically advanced and culturally authentic.”
ALLAM, which was built from the ground up by a team of over 120 AI specialists, including 35 Ph.d.-level researchers in the Kingdom, has been designed to serve the 350 million people who speak Arabic across the globe.
The model is culturally mindful, capable of dialect comprehension, and able to understand the different types of Arabic spoken across the region, from classical to more locale specific forms of the language.
The model, which is also available in English, is trained on one of the largest Arabic datasets ever collected, then refined with input from over 600 domain experts and 250 evaluators. The result is unmatched fluency in Arabic and deep alignment with Islamic, Middle Eastern, and cultural nuance, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
“We are proving that globally competitive technologies can be rooted in our own language, infrastructure, and values — built in Saudi Arabia by Saudi talent,” Amin said.
“This is not the end state, but the beginning of a journey to serve the Kingdom, the Arabic-speaking world, and beyond. The potential is limitless, accelerating innovation and progress across every dimension of commercial and social life.”
If you are in Saudi Arabia, you can access Humain Chat at https://chat.humain.ai/.
