Microsoft and HUMAIN announce long-term strategic collaboration to enable AI transformation in Saudi Arabia and beyond
Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced a long-term AI collaboration to integrate HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic language models into Microsoft’s AI ecosystem, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Foundry, with joint engineering support to accelerate AI adoption in Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced a long-term strategic collaboration to integrate HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic language models into Microsoft’s AI ecosystem, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Foundry. The partnership will initially focus on enabling organizations to deploy AI solutions tailored to Arabic-language and regional business needs through hands-on engineering support from both companies’ experts.
The collaboration aims to make ALLAM models available via Microsoft Foundry, allowing developers and enterprises to build, customize, and deploy AI applications and agents designed for Arabic-language requirements. Microsoft 365 Copilot will also incorporate ALLAM’s capabilities to create specialized agents for productivity and business workflows in Arabic.
HUMAIN’s AI experts and Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineers will work directly with customer teams to identify high-value AI use cases, integrate solutions into existing workflows, and support scaling from experimentation to production. This co-engineering approach combines Microsoft’s enterprise AI platforms with HUMAIN’s applied engineering capabilities to address technical and organizational challenges in AI deployment.
The companies plan to expand the collaboration beyond ALLAM, exploring additional areas such as productivity, devices, models, infrastructure, and joint go-to-market initiatives. The goal is to support responsible AI adoption across Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East and Africa, building local capabilities with regional relevance.