Arabic AI

“This week, it was announced that researchers from the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi developed ArabCulture-Dialogue, the first benchmark to measure AI models’ ability to understand and engage with Arab culture across 13 national dialects.”

— Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T12:23:20.744Z

Following up on an earlier post about Arabic and AI: "… one of the main challenges in AI development is that models are trained almost exclusively on Modern Standard Arabic." So, what about dialects? This research unpicks that particular question.

— Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T15:27:45.379Z

“The value of Arabic intellectual property, the development of Arabic-language AI tools and new ways of financing the region’s creative industries are among the subjects at this year’s Congress of Arabic and Creative Industries in Abu Dhabi.”

— Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 2026-08-18T12:32:04.227Z