Inception42 launches Seraj for advancing Arabic AI in collaboration with Microsoft
Inception 42, the G42 company that builds AI-powered products and solutions, has launched Seraj, a new enterprise AI model built to advance Arabic-language AI capabilities for government and enterprise applications. Developed along with Microsoft, Seraj is available through Compass, Core42’s sovereign AI platform. Built on GPT-4.1, the model combines frontier AI performance with advanced Arabic language understanding and cultural nuances.
The model has been specifically designed to help enterprises unlock context-aware, accurate and scalable Arabic AI applications, without compromising performance in English or other languages. Seraj aims to address the challenge in Arabic AI adoption challenges across enterprises in the region. The press note shared by the company stated that while several frontier models have demonstrated strong capabilities in English, they continue to have gaps in Arabic.
These include: linguistic precision, cultural context, dialect comprehension, and safety handling. These, in turn, have impacted deployment across sectors where Arabic trust, fluency, and contextual understanding are essential. Unlike the previous models, which were built from the ground up, Seraj takes a different architectural approach.
The model has targeted mid-training techniques that were applied using curated, high-quality Arabic datasets spanning linguistics, cultural knowledge, safety scenarios, and domain-specific enterprise content, resulting in a significant enhancement in Arabic performance while preserving the underlying reasoning and multilingual strengths.
Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42, said in the press note shared by the company: “Seraj is a gamechanger. Organisations across the region have been forced to choose between global AI capability and meaningful Arabic performance. Seraj changes that equation. From government services and legal analysis to customer engagement and knowledge management, the model is designed to help organisations deploy Arabic AI at scale with confidence.”
The model supports use cases like summarisation, document understanding, bilingual Arabic-English applications, translation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), workflow automation, and knowledge-intensive tasks across sectors such as government, education, legal services, Islamic studies, media, and financial services.
Rima Semaan, Director of AI and Enterprise Solutions at Microsoft UAE commented: “Microsoft’s collaboration with Inception42 on Seraj reflects a shared commitment to expanding the real-world impact of AI across the region. AI will create the greatest impact when it can understand and engage people in the languages they use every day. Seraj represents an important step forward in making advanced AI more relevant, accessible, and effective for Arabic-speaking organisations. By combining advanced frontier model capabilities with regionally relevant linguistic and cultural intelligence, Seraj supports the UAE’s broader vision of accelerating responsible AI adoption across governments, enterprises, and critical industries.”
The launch of Seraj reflects growing regional demand for AI systems that can operate effectively in Arabic across complex enterprise environments, particularly in applications where precision, trust, and contextual understanding are critical
