Riyadh – Sharikat Mubasher: HUMAIN, the PIF-owned artificial intelligence company, announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate AI adoption in Saudi Arabia and the wider region.

As per a recent press release, the partnership will initially focus on bringing HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic-language AI models to Microsoft’s AI ecosystem, with plans to make ALLAM available through Microsoft Foundry. This will enable developers and enterprises to build and deploy AI applications and agents tailored to Arabic-language and regional business needs.

The companies will also bring together HUMAIN’s AI experts and Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with organizations on identifying, developing, and deploying high-value AI solutions across Microsoft technologies.

The engineering teams will help customers integrate AI into existing workflows, optimize deployments, and move projects from experimentation to production at scale.

Tareq Amin, HUMAIN CEO, said the collaboration marks the beginning of a broader partnership, with additional capabilities expected in the coming months.

Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, said the partnership will help organizations develop AI that understands local language and context while meeting enterprise and public-sector security and governance requirements.

The companies also plan to explore collaboration across productivity, devices, models and infrastructure.