Arabic and AI
Arabic language models, dialects, tools and culturally grounded AI.
- Jais 3: a new family of open Arabic AI models from MBZUAI’s institute and Inception42
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence’s Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42, a G42 company, released Jais 3 on 15 October 2026. It is a family of six open, Arabic-first language models, ranging from 900 million
- TII announces Falcon-Emirati, an AI model for the Emirati dialect
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) announced three Arabic AI models on 6 October 2026. The main one, Falcon-Emirati, is a language model with 7 billion parameters (a rough measure of a model’s size), trained on native Emirati
- Saudi dialect recordings help an NVIDIA speech model make far fewer errors
A Saudi speech dataset helped one of NVIDIA’s speech recognition models understand two Saudi dialects much better, according to a technical study NVIDIA published on its developer blog on 30 September 2026. The team fine-tuned Nemotron 3.5