Humain, a Saudi AI firm, launched Allam, an Arabic conversational AI platform tailored to Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Arabic cultural values, initially available in Saudi Arabia with bilingual support and dialect recognition.

The company has secured partnerships with major tech firms like Nvidia, AMD, AWS, Qualcomm, Cisco, and Groq, investing heavily in data centers and AI cloud infrastructure, aiming for 1.9 gigawatts of capacity by 2030.

Allam 34B, trained on over eight petabytes of data—the largest Arabic dataset to date—was fine-tuned by over 600 domain experts and 250 evaluators to serve both public and private sectors.

The new model was developed by a team of 40 PhD researchers using proprietary datasets from within Saudi Arabia.

Humain’s platform is designed to compete regionally with systems like Abu Dhabi’s Falcon Arabic, but is not aimed at rivaling global giants like ChatGPT.

Humain has also launched an ads and gaming division and is developing AI platforms for edge and cloud applications, including hosting OpenAI models and supporting Arabic coding via Allam 34B.

The company is governed by a high-profile board chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with key members from government, PIF, and industry, and maintains strategic partnerships with tech giants.

The platform is accessible on web, iOS, and Android within Saudi Arabia, with plans for regional and global expansion, hosted entirely on sovereign infrastructure to ensure privacy and data security.

All of Humain’s operations are hosted within Saudi Arabia on sovereign infrastructure, serving over 400 million Arabic speakers and more than 2 billion Muslims worldwide.

Launched in May 2025, Humain operates as a full-stack AI company offering scalable, secure solutions with infrastructure, cloud, data, models, and applications for domestic and international markets.

Humain’s launch of Chat is part of its broader IQ product portfolio, aimed at serving governments, enterprises, and consumers with evolving AI capabilities tailored to regional needs.

CEO Tareq Amin described the launch as a milestone in developing culturally rooted sovereign AI, emphasizing the use of local talent, including over 120 AI specialists with balanced gender representation.