Riyadh – Sharikat Mubasher: In a move reflecting Saudi Arabia’s accelerating digital transformation, AI company Humain will launch “ALLaM” at the end of August, a foundation model developed and trained entirely in the Kingdom, Tareq Amin, Humain’s CEO, told Asharq Al-Awsat.
Designed with a core focus on Arabic in all its dialects, ALLaM integrates cultural and political safeguards tailored for the region. The model was built by a team of 40 PhD researchers working inside Saudi Arabia and trained on proprietary datasets that the company says will never be made public, giving it deep local knowledge and contextual accuracy surpassing global counterparts.
ALLaM will debut through the free “Humane Chat” app, offering capabilities similar to ChatGPT but optimized for Arabic users, including local dialect support. Humain sees ALLaM as part of a broader strategy to develop an integrated AI ecosystem, including infrastructure partnerships like its recent deal with US chipmaker Groq, a new enterprise operating system called “Humain One” launching in October, and a Saudi-designed AI computer built with Qualcomm.
Amin said the initiative aligns with Saudi Vision 2030’s push to make AI a foundation for economic growth, enabling the Kingdom to shift from being a consumer of foreign technologies to a producer of world-class AI platforms.
