HUMAIN Chat goes live powered by ALLaM 34B LLM
Arabic-English AI chat app HUMAIN Chat is available via web, iOS, and Android
#SaudiArabia #LLMs - HUMAIN, the new national artificial intelligence company formed by Public Investment Fund (PIF) has launched HUMAIN Chat, a conversational AI application powered by the powerful new Arabic language model ALLaM 34B. The new app is the first chance that Saudi Arabia Internet users have had to try the new ALLaM 34B model, developed by HUMAIN. Featuring real-time web search, multi-dialect Arabic speech input, and full compliance with Saudi data protection regulations, HUMAIN Chat has currently only been made available within the Kingdom. However, access will be rolled-out soon to the surrounding region and later to the rest of the world.
SO WHAT? - The HUMAIN Chat and ALLaM 34B launch marks a number of significant milestones. The model is the first ALLaM LLM to be built by HUMAIN (previous models were developed by SDAIA). The new release also boasts power and performance that are truly cutting edge, with both superfast local inferencing and the most powerful set of features for any Arabic LLM released to-date. With real-time access to the world wide web, Arabic speech input across multiple dialects and seamless bilingual switching between Arabic and English within the same conversation HUMAIN Chat sets the benchmark for Arabic AI chat apps.
Here are some key points about the HUMAIN Chat and ALLaM 34B launch:
HUMAIN has launched HUMAIN Chat, a conversational AI application powered by the powerful new Arabic language model ALLaM 34B. The app is currently available to users in Saudi Arabia only. However, access will soon be rolled-out to the surrounding region and later to the rest of the world.
ALLAM 34B has been ranked as the world’s most advanced Arabic LLM built in the Arab world by Cohere using the MMLU (Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding) benchmark.
HUMAIN built the platform to serve the over 400 million Arabic speakers and two billion Muslims worldwide who have been historically underserved by mainstream generative AI applications.
HUMAIN Chat offers Arabic users a powerful set of features that include:
Real-time web search - for access to up-to-date knowledge.
Arabic speech input - available for multiple Arabic dialects.
Seamless bilingual switching - allowing users to switch between Arabic and English language within the same conversation.
Conversation sharing - to enable collaboration and reuse.
Full compliance with Saudi PDPL -the ALLaM 34B model and HUMAIN Chat app are hosted end-to-end on HUMAIN infrastructure in the Kingdom, and so compliant with the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
ALLAM 34B was developed by over 120 AI specialists including 35 PhD holders with 50/50 gender ratio, trained on one of the largest Arabic datasets ever assembled (proprietary to HUMAIN).
The model received refinement input from 600+ domain experts and 250 evaluators to ensure cultural authenticity and alignment with Islamic values and Middle Eastern nuances.
HUMAIN builds on previous models developed by the National Center for AI under Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority's national mandate, representing advanced sovereign AI capabilities.
The platform launches first in Saudi Arabia before access is rolled out to the Middle East and globally.
ZOOM OUT - ALLaM is an Arabic-centric large language model family that was first announced in 2023, originally developed by Saudi Arabia's National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), which operated under Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). ALLaM was first released as a pilot AI chat app in May 2023 and went through several iterations before being made publically available via IBM's watsonx platform in May 2024. 7 billion , 13 billion and 70 billion parameter version were developed in 2024 using Meta’s Llama 2 framework, with the model ALLaM-1-13b-instruct being made available via watsonx. In September 2024 - ALLaM-2-7b-instruct was made available via Microsoft's Azure platform. An ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview was made available via Hugging Face in early 2025.
With the launch of Saudi Arabia's national AI company HUMAIN in May 2025, the company formally took ownership of the ALLaM brand and development project, although in collaboration with SDAIA. Under HUMAIN, the new ALLaM 34B was built and trained from scratch as an Arabic-centric foundation model.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
LINKS
HUMAIN Chat (Humain website)
HUMAIN Chat iOS app (Apple Appstore) [not yet working]
HUMAIN Chat Android app (Google Play)
Read more about ALLaM:
HUMAIN to launch a powerful new Arabic AI model suite (Middle East AI News)
Qualcomm & SDAIA launch ALLaM AI PC at LEAP25 (Middle East AI News)
Saudi Arabia's Allam LLM now available on Azure (Middle East AI News)
SDAIA's Arabic LLM now live on watsonx (Middle East AI News)