RIYADH, Aug 26: Saudi Arabia-backed AI venture Humain on Tuesday unveiled a conversational AI application trained on one of the world’s largest Arabic datasets, as part of its push to become a leading player in artificial intelligence.

Powered by the company’s Allam large language model, the Humain Chat app offers real-time web search, Arabic speech input across dialects, bilingual switching between Arabic and English, and conversation sharing. The company said the platform also complies fully with Saudi Arabia’s data protection laws.

Humain Chat is now publicly available on web, iOS, and Android platforms. It will launch first in Saudi Arabia before expanding regionally across the Middle East and then globally.

The company, established in May by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Public Investment Fund (PIF), said its ALLAM 34B model is “the most advanced large language model developed in the Arab world.” It added that Humain Chat will continue to improve with consumer use after launch.

The chatbot was developed from the ground up by a team of 120 AI specialists based in Saudi Arabia.

CEO Tareq Amin, formerly of Rakuten Symphony, described the rollout as “a historic milestone in our mission to build sovereign AI that is both technically advanced and culturally authentic.”

“We are proving that globally competitive technologies can be rooted in our own language, infrastructure, and values, built in Saudi Arabia by Saudi talent,” he said.