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 "count": 31,
 "source": "https://gulfaideals.com",
 "license": "Facts with source links; cite source_url",
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  {
   "slug": "jais-2",
   "name": "Jais 2",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Arabic-centric open LLM family (8B/70B); the paper emphasises Arabic and dialectal performance.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic incl. dialects (per paper)",
   "pricing": "Open weights",
   "url": "https://inceptionai.ai",
   "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13580",
   "description_ar": "عائلة نماذج لغوية مفتوحة تتمحور حول العربية بحجمي 8 و70 مليار معامل، تركز على الأداء في العربية ولهجاتها.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية ولهجاتها (وفق الورقة البحثية)",
   "name_ar": "جيس 2"
  },
  {
   "slug": "falcon-h1-arabic",
   "name": "Falcon-H1-Arabic",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "TII's hybrid-architecture Arabic models (3B/7B/34B) with long context.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic incl. dialects (per TII blog)",
   "pricing": "Open weights",
   "url": "https://falcon-lm.github.io",
   "source_url": "https://falcon-lm.github.io/blog/falcon-h1-arabic/",
   "description_ar": "نماذج «فالكون» العربية من معهد الابتكار التكنولوجي بمعمارية هجينة وسياق طويل (3 و7 و34 مليار معامل).",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية ولهجاتها (وفق المعهد)",
   "name_ar": "فالكون H1 العربي"
  },
  {
   "slug": "fanar",
   "name": "Fanar",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Qatar's Arabic generative AI stack (Fanar 2.0) from QCRI/HBKU.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic (MSA and dialects per paper)",
   "pricing": "Free access / research",
   "url": "https://fanar.qa",
   "source_url": "https://fdalvi.github.io/research/2026-03-arXiv-Fanar-2.0/paper.pdf",
   "description_ar": "منظومة «فنار» القطرية للذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي بالعربية من معهد قطر لبحوث الحوسبة.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "الفصحى واللهجات (وفق الورقة البحثية)",
   "name_ar": "فنار"
  },
  {
   "slug": "allam",
   "name": "ALLaM",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Saudi Arabic LLM (7B/34B) from SDAIA/HUMAIN; available on Amazon Bedrock.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Via cloud providers",
   "url": "https://www.humain.com",
   "source_url": "https://www.humain.com/en/news/humain-and-aws-expand-strategic-collaboration.html",
   "description_ar": "نموذج «علّام» السعودي من «سدايا» و«هيوماين»، ومتاح عبر Amazon Bedrock.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "علّام"
  },
  {
   "slug": "silma",
   "name": "SILMA",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Arabic-focused 9B model family from SILMA AI.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Open weights",
   "url": "https://silma.ai",
   "source_url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/silma-ai/arabic-llm-models-list",
   "description_ar": "عائلة نماذج «سلمى» العربية بحجم 9 مليارات معامل.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "سلمى"
  },
  {
   "slug": "command-r7b-arabic",
   "name": "Command R7B Arabic",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Cohere's small enterprise-focused Arabic/English model optimised for RAG.",
   "arabic_support": "Mainly MSA (per paper)",
   "pricing": "Open weights (non-commercial) + paid API",
   "url": "https://cohere.com",
   "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2503.14603",
   "description_ar": "نموذج صغير من «كوهير» للمؤسسات بالعربية والإنجليزية، محسّن للبحث المعزز بالاسترجاع.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "الفصحى أساساً (وفق الورقة البحثية)",
   "name_ar": "Command R7B Arabic"
  },
  {
   "slug": "acegpt",
   "name": "AceGPT",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Culturally aligned Arabic LLM from academic researchers.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Open weights",
   "url": "https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/AceGPT",
   "source_url": "https://github.com/OsamaALHajj/awesome-arabic-ai",
   "description_ar": "نموذج لغوي عربي مواءَم ثقافياً من باحثين أكاديميين.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "AceGPT"
  },
  {
   "slug": "noor",
   "name": "Noor",
   "category": "Arabic LLM",
   "description": "Early large-scale Arabic NLP/language model listed in Arabic AI resource directories.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "See source",
   "url": "https://github.com/OsamaALHajj/awesome-arabic-ai",
   "source_url": "https://github.com/OsamaALHajj/awesome-arabic-ai",
   "description_ar": "من أوائل النماذج اللغوية العربية واسعة النطاق، ومدرج في أدلة موارد الذكاء الاصطناعي العربي.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "نور"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mawdoo3-ai-apis",
   "name": "Mawdoo3 AI APIs",
   "category": "Arabic NLP",
   "description": "Arabic NLP APIs for sentiment, topics, entities and moderation.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Paid API",
   "url": "https://ai.mawdoo3.com",
   "source_url": "https://github.com/OsamaALHajj/awesome-arabic-ai",
   "description_ar": "واجهات برمجية من «موضوع» لتحليل المشاعر والموضوعات والكيانات والإشراف على المحتوى العربي.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "واجهات «موضوع» للذكاء الاصطناعي"
  },
  {
   "slug": "baseer",
   "name": "Baseer",
   "category": "OCR",
   "description": "Arabic OCR vision-language model for printed documents from Misraj AI.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "See vendor site",
   "url": "https://misraj.ai/en/models/baseer",
   "source_url": "https://misraj.ai/en/models/baseer",
   "description_ar": "نموذج رؤية ولغة من «مسراج» للتعرف الضوئي على النصوص العربية المطبوعة.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "بصير"
  },
  {
   "slug": "baseer-nakba",
   "name": "Baseer-Nakba",
   "category": "OCR",
   "description": "Handwritten Arabic manuscript OCR model; won the 2026 NAKBA handwritten-text task.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic handwriting",
   "pricing": "Open weights",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/Misraj/Baseer__Nakba",
   "source_url": "https://huggingface.co/Misraj/Baseer__Nakba",
   "description_ar": "نموذج للتعرف على المخطوطات العربية المكتوبة بخط اليد، فاز بمهمة «نكبة» للنصوص اليدوية 2026.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "الخط العربي اليدوي",
   "name_ar": "بصير - نكبة"
  },
  {
   "slug": "qari-ocr",
   "name": "Qari-OCR",
   "category": "OCR",
   "description": "Arabic OCR VLM (v0.3, 2B) preserving layout; handwriting support described as preliminary.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Open weights",
   "url": "https://huggingface.co/NAMAA-Space/Qari-OCR-v0.3-VL-2B-Instruct",
   "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2506.02295",
   "description_ar": "نموذج مفتوح للتعرف الضوئي على العربية يحافظ على تنسيق الصفحة، ودعمه للخط اليدوي أولي.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "قارئ OCR"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mistral-ocr",
   "name": "Mistral OCR",
   "category": "OCR",
   "description": "General document OCR noted as strong on printed Arabic text.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic (printed)",
   "pricing": "Paid API",
   "url": "https://mistral.ai",
   "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2506.02295",
   "description_ar": "أداة عامة لقراءة المستندات توصف بقوتها في النصوص العربية المطبوعة.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية المطبوعة",
   "name_ar": "Mistral OCR"
  },
  {
   "slug": "munsit-stt",
   "name": "Munsit STT",
   "category": "Speech-to-text",
   "description": "Arabic speech recognition API with streaming and diarization.",
   "arabic_support": "25+ Arabic dialects (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Paid API",
   "url": "https://munsit.com",
   "source_url": "https://munsit.com/",
   "description_ar": "واجهة للتعرف على الكلام العربي مع البث المباشر وتمييز المتحدثين.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "أكثر من 25 لهجة (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "منصت - تحويل الكلام إلى نص"
  },
  {
   "slug": "munsit-faseeh-tts",
   "name": "Munsit Faseeh TTS",
   "category": "Text-to-speech",
   "description": "Arabic TTS with Gulf voices.",
   "arabic_support": "Emirati, Khaleeji, Najdi, Hijazi (vendor docs)",
   "pricing": "Paid API",
   "url": "https://docs.munsit.com",
   "source_url": "https://docs.munsit.com/text-to-speech/voices",
   "description_ar": "خدمة «فصيح» لتحويل النص إلى كلام بأصوات خليجية.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "الإماراتية والخليجية والنجدية والحجازية (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "منصت فصيح"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lahajati",
   "name": "Lahajati",
   "category": "Text-to-speech",
   "description": "Arabic voice generator for voice-overs and audiobooks, plus STT and SRT export.",
   "arabic_support": "192+ dialects/variants claimed (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Freemium",
   "url": "https://lahajati.ai/en",
   "source_url": "https://lahajati.ai/en",
   "description_ar": "مولّد أصوات عربية للتعليق الصوتي والكتب المسموعة، مع تحويل الكلام إلى نص وتصدير الترجمات.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "أكثر من 192 لهجة ونمطاً (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "لهجاتي"
  },
  {
   "slug": "elevenlabs-dubbing",
   "name": "ElevenLabs Dubbing",
   "category": "Dubbing",
   "description": "Multilingual AI dubbing with voice cloning.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic (ar) and Egyptian Arabic (ar-EG) on Dubbing v2",
   "pricing": "Freemium / subscription",
   "url": "https://elevenlabs.io",
   "source_url": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/capabilities/dubbing.mdx",
   "description_ar": "دبلجة متعددة اللغات بالذكاء الاصطناعي مع استنساخ الصوت.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية والمصرية (الإصدار الثاني)",
   "name_ar": "ElevenLabs Dubbing"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heygen-video-translate",
   "name": "HeyGen Video Translate",
   "category": "Dubbing & lip-sync",
   "description": "Video translation with voice cloning and lip-sync into 175+ languages.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic incl. country variants (per HeyGen locale guide)",
   "pricing": "Freemium / subscription",
   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/translate",
   "source_url": "https://github.com/heygen-com/skills/blob/HEAD/heygen-translate/references/language-locale-guide.md",
   "description_ar": "ترجمة الفيديو مع استنساخ الصوت ومزامنة الشفاه إلى أكثر من 175 لغة.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية بمتغيراتها القُطرية (وفق دليل المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "HeyGen Video Translate"
  },
  {
   "slug": "rask-ai",
   "name": "Rask AI",
   "category": "Dubbing & lip-sync",
   "description": "Video localisation: translation, dubbing, voice cloning, captions and lip-sync.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Freemium / subscription",
   "url": "https://www.rask.ai",
   "source_url": "https://www.rask.ai/free-tools/ai-dubbing/arabic-dubbing",
   "description_ar": "توطين الفيديو: ترجمة ودبلجة واستنساخ صوت وترجمة نصية ومزامنة شفاه.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "Rask AI"
  },
  {
   "slug": "amazon-polly-gulf-arabic",
   "name": "Amazon Polly (Gulf Arabic)",
   "category": "Text-to-speech",
   "description": "AWS TTS with Gulf Arabic neural voices Hala and Zayd (ar-AE).",
   "arabic_support": "Gulf Arabic (ar-AE), MSA",
   "pricing": "Pay-as-you-go",
   "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/polly/",
   "source_url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/available-voices.html",
   "description_ar": "خدمة تحويل النص إلى كلام من AWS بصوتين خليجيين هما «هالة» و«زايد».",
   "arabic_support_ar": "الخليجية والفصحى",
   "name_ar": "Amazon Polly (Gulf Arabic)"
  },
  {
   "slug": "azure-ai-speech-tts",
   "name": "Azure AI Speech TTS",
   "category": "Text-to-speech",
   "description": "Microsoft neural voices per Arabic country locale (e.g., ar-AE, ar-SA, ar-KW, ar-QA).",
   "arabic_support": "Country locales incl. all GCC",
   "pricing": "Pay-as-you-go",
   "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/products/ai-services/ai-speech",
   "source_url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/language-support",
   "description_ar": "أصوات عصبية من مايكروسوفت لكل دولة عربية، منها الإمارات والسعودية والكويت وقطر.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "لهجات قُطرية تشمل دول الخليج كافة",
   "name_ar": "Azure AI Speech TTS"
  },
  {
   "slug": "azure-ai-speech-stt",
   "name": "Azure AI Speech STT",
   "category": "Speech-to-text",
   "description": "Microsoft speech recognition with Arabic country locales.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic country locales",
   "pricing": "Pay-as-you-go",
   "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/products/ai-services/ai-speech",
   "source_url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/language-support",
   "description_ar": "خدمة مايكروسوفت للتعرف على الكلام بمتغيرات عربية قُطرية.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "متغيرات عربية قُطرية",
   "name_ar": "Azure AI Speech STT"
  },
  {
   "slug": "google-cloud-speech-to-text",
   "name": "Google Cloud Speech-to-Text",
   "category": "Speech-to-text",
   "description": "Google STT with Arabic locales incl. ar-AE, ar-SA, ar-KW, ar-QA, ar-BH, ar-OM.",
   "arabic_support": "18 Arabic locales",
   "pricing": "Pay-as-you-go",
   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text",
   "source_url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/speech-to-text-supported-languages",
   "description_ar": "خدمة «غوغل» للتعرف على الكلام بمتغيرات عربية تشمل الإمارات والسعودية والكويت وقطر والبحرين وعُمان.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "18 متغيراً عربياً",
   "name_ar": "Google Cloud Speech-to-Text"
  },
  {
   "slug": "deepgram-nova-3",
   "name": "Deepgram Nova-3",
   "category": "Speech-to-text",
   "description": "Real-time STT reported as a strong Arabic option for voice agents (independent directory).",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Pay-as-you-go",
   "url": "https://deepgram.com",
   "source_url": "https://voicearabic.com/en",
   "description_ar": "نموذج لحظي لتحويل الكلام إلى نص يُعد خياراً قوياً للعربية في الوكلاء الصوتيين (وفق دليل مستقل).",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "Deepgram Nova-3"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arabic-ai-suite",
   "name": "Arabic.AI Suite",
   "category": "Enterprise AI platform",
   "description": "Enterprise Arabic AI layer incl. speech and agents, deployable in VPC/on-prem.",
   "arabic_support": "22 dialects for speech (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Enterprise",
   "url": "https://arabic.ai",
   "source_url": "https://arabic.ai/",
   "description_ar": "منصة مؤسسية للذكاء الاصطناعي العربي تشمل الكلام والوكلاء، قابلة للنشر داخل بيئة العميل.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "22 لهجة للكلام (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "منصة عربي إيه آي"
  },
  {
   "slug": "maqsam-ai-agent",
   "name": "Maqsam AI Agent",
   "category": "Chatbot / voice agent",
   "description": "Arabic-native AI agent integrated with call-centre software, with human escalation and CRM integrations.",
   "arabic_support": "GCC, Levantine, Egyptian; Arabic-English mix (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Subscription",
   "url": "https://maqsam.com/ai-agent",
   "source_url": "https://maqsam.com/ai-agent",
   "description_ar": "وكيل ذكي عربي مدمج مع أنظمة مراكز الاتصال، مع تحويل إلى الموظفين وتكامل مع أنظمة إدارة العملاء.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "الخليجية والشامية والمصرية مع المزج بالإنجليزية (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "وكيل مقسم الذكي"
  },
  {
   "slug": "wittify",
   "name": "Wittify",
   "category": "Chatbot / voice agent",
   "description": "Low-code omnichannel agents (voice, web, WhatsApp, social) with GCC data residency.",
   "arabic_support": "25+ Arabic dialects (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Subscription",
   "url": "https://wittify.ai",
   "source_url": "https://wittify.ai/",
   "description_ar": "منصة منخفضة الأكواد لوكلاء متعددي القنوات (صوت وموقع وواتساب) مع استضافة البيانات في الخليج.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "أكثر من 25 لهجة (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "ويتيفاي"
  },
  {
   "slug": "lucidya",
   "name": "Lucidya",
   "category": "CX & social listening",
   "description": "CX management suite with Arabic NLP, social listening and omnichannel support.",
   "arabic_support": "17 dialects (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Enterprise",
   "url": "https://www.lucidya.com",
   "source_url": "https://www.lucidya.com/blog/culturally-relevant-ai-innovation-nuance-privacy-mena",
   "description_ar": "منصة لإدارة تجربة العملاء والرصد الاجتماعي بمعالجة متقدمة للغة العربية.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "17 لهجة (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "لوسيديا"
  },
  {
   "slug": "heybreez",
   "name": "HeyBreez",
   "category": "Voice agent",
   "description": "Low-latency telephony and multi-agent voice infrastructure; partnered with Arabic.AI for enterprise Arabic voice agents.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic",
   "pricing": "Enterprise",
   "url": "https://heybreez.com",
   "source_url": "https://arabic.ai/arabic-ai-and-heybreez-join-forces-to-run-arabic-voice-ai-at-enterprise-scale/",
   "description_ar": "بنية اتصال صوتي منخفضة التأخير للوكلاء المتعددين، بالشراكة مع «عربي إيه آي».",
   "arabic_support_ar": "العربية",
   "name_ar": "HeyBreez"
  },
  {
   "slug": "atain",
   "name": "Atain",
   "category": "Chatbot / voice agent",
   "description": "Agentic AI for customer service used by a Middle Eastern airline.",
   "arabic_support": "Multilingual incl. Arabic (vendor)",
   "pricing": "Enterprise",
   "url": "https://atain.com",
   "source_url": "https://atain.com/client-outcome/agentic-ai-helps-a-leading-middle-eastern-airline-reduce-live-contacts-by-45-and-maintain-%E2%89%A590-even-during-disruptions/",
   "description_ar": "ذكاء اصطناعي وكيلي لخدمة العملاء استخدمته ناقلة جوية في المنطقة.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "متعدد اللغات يشمل العربية (وفق المورّد)",
   "name_ar": "Atain"
  },
  {
   "slug": "mozn-focal",
   "name": "Mozn FOCAL",
   "category": "Fraud & AML AI",
   "description": "Saudi AI platform for real-time financial crime detection, used by Al Rajhi Bank.",
   "arabic_support": "Arabic-region focused",
   "pricing": "Enterprise",
   "url": "https://www.mozn.ai",
   "source_url": "https://www.mozn.ai/blog/alrajhi-bank-partners-with-mozn-to-harness-ai-in-the-fight-against-fraud",
   "description_ar": "منصة سعودية للذكاء الاصطناعي في رصد الجرائم المالية لحظياً، يعتمدها مصرف الراجحي.",
   "arabic_support_ar": "مخصصة للمنطقة العربية",
   "name_ar": "موزن فوكال"
  }
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}