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Field notes on Arabic AI.

What we learn building frontier-quality Arabic data — written for the teams shipping Arabic models into production. No fluff, no vendor theater: dialects, compliance and evaluation, treated with the seriousness they deserve.

Guide · Dialects

Why dialect coverage decides your Arabic model's ceiling

MSA gets you reading. Dialect gets you understood. Where the real data gap sits — and what it costs in production.

June 2026 · 8 min read
Brief · Compliance

PDPL & data residency: a checklist for MENA AI teams

What in-region really means under Saudi Arabia's PDPL, and the questions to ask any data partner before work begins.

May 2026 · 9 min read
Method · Evaluation

How to benchmark an Arabic LLM you can actually trust

Beyond accuracy: why translated benchmarks mislead, and a five-dimension protocol for measuring what matters in dialect.

April 2026 · 10 min read

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