The ALLAM34B training data, which powers the HUMAIN Chat, is built on 8 petabytes of data, with more than 380 billion words of Arabic content, more than 390,000 books, and more than 500 billion Arabic tokens.HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund (PIF) company building end-to-end AI capabilities, has launched HUMAIN Chat, a next-generation Arabic conversational AI app powered by ALLAM 34B, the organisation’s flagship Arabic large language model.
HUMAIN Chat is built for the more than 400 million Arabic speakers and 2 billion Muslims worldwide who have been underserved by generative AI. For the first time, people can create, learn, and connect in their own language, culture, and context.
Powered by ALLAM 34B, the app closes a historic gap in digital inclusion and enabling linguistic equality. HUMAIN Chat brings culturally intelligent responses grounded in the Arabic language, values, heritage and history.
Powered by ALLAM 34B, the app closes a historic gap in digital inclusion and enabling linguistic equality.
Available on web, iOS, and Android, HUMAIN Chat is launching first in Saudi Arabia as a national milestone, with regional rollout across the Middle East and global expansion to follow soon.
Built in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for the Arabic-speaking world, HUMAIN Chat represents a defining step in sovereign AI designed for cultural depth, linguistic equity, and global competitiveness.
Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN, 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.”
Amin added, “We are proving that globally competitive technologies can be rooted in our own language, infrastructure, and values – built in Saudi Arabia by Saudi talent. 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.”
Features of HUMAIN Chat – the Arabic-first AI app
HUMAIN Chat is positioned as more than an app. It is the first release in the HUMAIN IQ portfolio: a new generation of AI model products and solutions where scientific depth meets responsible design.
• Real-time web search for always up-to-date knowledge.
• Arabic speech input across multiple dialects.
• Seamless bilingual switching between Arabic and English within the same conversation.
• Conversation sharing to enable collaboration and reuse.
• Full compliance with Saudi PDPL, hosted end-to-end on HUMAIN infrastructure in the Kingdom.
ALLAM 34B is not just another model, it is a milestone.
HUMAIN’s ALLAM 34B builds on the previous released models developed by the National Center for AI under The Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) national mandate.
ALLAM 34B, its most advanced model, has been independently verified by Cohere on MMLU as the world’s most advanced Arabic LLM built in the Arab world and will continue to improve with consumer engagement post launch. Arabic-first by design, yet fully bilingual in English.
ALLAM 34B is trained on one of the largest Arabic datasets ever assembled, then refined with input from 600+ domain experts and 250 evaluators. The result: unmatched fluency in Arabic and deep alignment with Islamic, Middle Eastern, and cultural nuance.
The team behind ALLAM and HUMAIN Chat embodies Saudi Arabia’s new generation of AI leadership. Over 120 AI specialists, including 35 PhD holders, with a 50/50 gender ratio, have built this model from the ground up – hosted in Saudi, by Saudis, with global talent alongside them.
ALLAM 34B’s technology is proof that Saudi Arabia is shaping the future of AI on its own terms, with talent, IP, and infrastructure rooted at home, and built for the world. As with all large language models, the more they are used, the smarter and more capable they become.
The launch of HUMAIN Chat across Saudi Arabia is a call to action: for every citizen to use it, test it and help shape it into the world’s leading Arabic AI. This is a collective effort to deliver the best Arabic-first AI solution for the entire region, and soon, the world. A regional and global rollout of HUMAIN Chat will follow.
