Humain Launches the First Saudi-Built Chatbot with Arabic and English Support

⬤ Humain, Saudi AI company, has launched Humain Chat, the first locally developed conversational AI assistant.

⬤ The company is backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and was established in May 2025.

⬤ ALLAM, the large language model developed recently by Humain, powers the chatbot.

Humain, a newly established Saudi artificial intelligence company owned by the Public Investment Fund, announced on Monday the launch of its new conversational AI app, Humain Chat. The platform is powered by the company’s proprietary large language model, ALLAM, which debuted just last week.

The chatbot can interact fluently in both Arabic and English and supports multiple Arabic dialects, including Egyptian and Lebanese. According to the company, Humain Chat was designed to reflect the local cultural identity and values of Saudi Arabia while providing a natural and adaptive conversational experience.

The company described the launch as a major step toward developing what it calls “Sovereign AI”, emphasizing the importance of national technological self-reliance. Humain also shared a promotional video for the app on X (formerly Twitter), highlighting its key features and capabilities.

The chatbot’s development involved a team of about 120 AI specialists, with half of them being women—a move aligned with Saudi Vision 2030, which places strong emphasis on female empowerment in the technology sector.

Although still a young company, Humain was officially launched in May 2025, coinciding with the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to the Kingdom. The company aims to expand its investments across data centers, cloud computing, and large-scale AI models. Recently, it announced plans to establish a 10 billion dollar investment fund to support emerging technology startups.

The ALLAM project, originally overseen by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), was acquired by Humain as part of a broader restructuring aimed at unifying the country’s AI initiatives under a single entity. The move follows a series of strategic agreements with Nvidia and AMD to supply advanced chips for Humain’s upcoming network of mega data centers, which are planned to deliver a total capacity of 1.9 gigawatts by 2030.

With Humain Chat, Saudi Arabia has taken a concrete step toward building an AI ecosystem rooted in its own language, culture, and vision for technological independence.