# Microsoft and HUMAIN plan Arabic AI rollout in Foundry

_Published Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 11:06 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.

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- [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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Published: 2026-08-28T03:06:53.681Z
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Retrieved: 2026-10-12T10:47:19.321Z
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