# Microsoft and HUMAIN plan Arabic AI rollout in Foundry

_Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 7:04 PM EDT · AI, Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Microsoft and Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN announced an initial milestone in a long-term collaboration centered on bringing HUMAIN's ALLAM Arabic-language models into Microsoft's AI ecosystem. The companies intend to make ALLAM available through Microsoft Foundry and pair HUMAIN specialists with Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers to support customer AI deployments. They also said organizations could use ALLAM-based capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows.

## Sources

- [Source](https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/08/microsoft-and-humain-announce-long-term-strategic-collaboration-to-enable-ai-transformation-in-saudi-arabia-and-beyond-2/)

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