Saudi Arabian AI company Humain has announced a conversational AI application for Arab and Muslim users. According to the company, the chat platform will run on the Allam leading language model, which is created around the principles of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Arabic heritage to suit the user's language and thought processes.
The application is currently only available in Saudi Arabia, but still Offer Arabic and English bilinguals support and recognize multiple Arabic dialects, including Egyptian and Lebanese.
Amin claims they built the platform with local talent
Humain CEO Tareq Amin has hailed the launch of the platform as a “historical milestone” in the company's efforts to develop advanced, culturally rooted sovereign AI. He also said that development relies on local talent and that there is a team of around 120 AI experts, with women representing half of the team.
Furthermore, he said that their LLM Allam relied on data sets and controls that reflect local cultural norms and values, and that they helped the kingdom regulate the information available.
Allam 34B was trained on eight petabytes of data, the largest Arabic dataset known to date, and fine-tuned by over 600 domain experts and 250 raters from various sectors. However, the chat platform is set up to compete with a similar system developed by the research department of the Abu Dhabi government, Falcon Arabic.
When Humain first announced the AI project, Amin said the model was “intended to serve both the needs of the public and private sectors at scale.” He even argued that this is part of a wide range of investments in GPU clusters, data centers and EDGE AI deployments.
Nevertheless, the company's initiative supports Vision 2030's goals by developing local technical capabilities, boosting digital infrastructure and reducing dependence on oil. The company first took over the management of ALLAM from the Saudi Arabia Department of Data and Artificial Intelligence, the government agency that collaborated with IBM on the project. However, Alam debuts amid a global debate over whether developing high-end AI models from scratch is worth investing. Regionally, IT and Falcon are valuable for the comprehensive Arabic production and support for local research, but are not intended to compete with industry giants like ChatGpt.
Humain secures partnerships with multiple companies
The human, owned by Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, was introduced in May one day before US President Donald Trump's visit. The company acquired NVIDIA and AMD chips for major data center projects at the time. Today, the company operates on all four core layers of AI for infrastructure, cloud, data, models and applications. Amin said it plans to achieve a data center capacity of 1.9 gigawatts by 2030.
The company established its advertising and gaming division in June, sharing an ambitious plan to invest in data centers, cloud services, and large language models, including a $10 billion venture capital fund.
Additionally, we work with several major companies, including Amazon Web Services. AWS has already committed to pouring over $5 billion to develop Saudi Arabia's Human AI zone. Needless to say, the Saudi Arabian company has partnered with NVIDIA to establish an AI “factory” that can support hundreds of thousands of GPUs and 500 megawatts of computing power.
Human is also working with Qualcomm to build an AI platform that works beyond Edge and Cloud, helping Cisco and AMD create secure AI superstructures. At the same time, Human's sovereign data center hosts Openai's open source model through GROQ, Replit deploys regional versions of the platform on the Human Cloud, and Allam 34B offers Arabic coding support.
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