11-Sep-25 - Thursday Deep Dive - Nour Taher, co-founder and CEO of Arabic-first AI speech technology company Intella joins Carrington Malin to discuss the state of Arabic language AI, how Intella’s technology is empowering conversational AI in the Arabic language and the company’s recent $12.5 million Series AI funding round.
00:00 — Introduction to Middle East AI News LIVE
02:03 — Major challenges of building Arabic AI systems
05:32 — Why building colloquial Arabic models is so hard
06:39 — Intella’s speech-to-text engine curates dialectal Arabic data
07:18 — The Arabic AI technology gap
09:22 — Right market, right time
12:42 — Intella partners with Jumia for Arabic voice commerce
15:16 — Intella’s focus and AI tech stack
25:24 — AI startup ecosystem and Intalla’s funding journey
32:22 — Intella’s post-funding outlook, R&D, pilots and lifestyle use cases
36.38 — When will we get AI voice commerce for restaurants?
33.42 — Saying goodbye to legacy chatbots
39.15 — Final notes and demo offer
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