Arabic.AI

UAE-based enterprise AI company built by translation firm Tarjama and led by founder Nour Al Hassan. It develops the Pronoia Arabic language model and AI agents, and is backed by Global Ventures and HUMAIN.

Industry: Arabic language AI and translation | Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Founded: 2008 | Total Funding: USD 15M

About Arabic.AI

Arabic.AI is an Arabic-first enterprise AI business owned by Tarjama, the language-technology and translation company founded by Nour Al Hassan, who leads both as founder and chief executive. After about two years of development, Arabic.AI was launched in 2023 as a separate technology arm. Tarjama itself was started in Amman, Jordan, in 2008 or 2009 according to differing accounts, and is now described as UAE-based, with operations in Saudi Arabia and offices in Riyadh, Dubai, Amman, Montreal and Paris. Tarjama reports more than 700 clients and says it is profitable.

Arabic.AI markets an agentic AI ecosystem for enterprises and governments in Arabic-speaking markets. Its flagship large language model, Pronoia, is Arabic-first; the company says the model outperforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Cohere on Arabic tasks, a claim made in its own announcements. Al Hassan also founded Ureed.com, an online marketplace linking businesses with Arabic-language freelancers, in 2017.

In May 2025 Tarjama raised a USD 15M Series A to scale Arabic.AI. Global Ventures led the round, with Wamda Capital, TA Ventures, Phaze Capital, Golden Gate Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst participating. The company said the money would expand its engineering team, build sovereign infrastructure and open an AI Academy for enterprise and government leaders.

In September 2026 HUMAIN, the artificial intelligence company owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, made a strategic investment in Arabic.AI and Tarjama, taking an equity stake, and signed a partnership to deploy Arabic language products for Saudi enterprise customers at scale and in international markets. The size of the investment, the stake and the valuation were not disclosed. The first products from the arrangement were unveiled at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, focused on three areas: an Arabic-first translation management system, an archive digitisation engine, and document intelligence agents for contracts, tenders, regulatory filings and compliance material. TechScoop noted that this targets large archives of Arabic documents never structured for machine reading, such as scanned tender packs and bilingual contracts, a task made harder by Arabic's cursive script, the usual absence of diacritics and formulaic legal language.

For HUMAIN the stake fits a pattern of investing in the application layer that uses its models and infrastructure, following its earlier investment in enterprise AI firm MOZN. TechScoop's analysis of LEAP 2026 described Arabic AI as moving from research programmes to a distribution business. Separately, Tarjama's Jordanian entity, Tarjama Jordan for Technology and Translation, signed a training cooperation agreement with the German Jordanian University at LEAP 2026; it was not part of the HUMAIN investment. In TechScoop's view, the measure of the partnership will be whether Saudi enterprises can show bodies of Arabic documents they no longer process by hand.

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