Fanar 2.0 Released!

Fanar 2.0 launched today at the World AI Summit. It brings together the efforts of a wonderful team at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. With this release, we continue our efforts to create a sovereign, Arabic-focused generative AI platform that strives to advance Arabic AI. The platform goes beyond just text this year, with support for Speech, Images and Video. We have also added specialized models like translation to further cater to a wide range of use cases.

Try the platform today on the Web or via our mobile apps (iOS and Android), and sign up at the API to start using Fanar in your use cases today. Open source model releases and the full tech report coming soon!

Update: The technical report is out at ArXiv, and details our approach to building a sovereign Arabic-centric AI stack with limited resources.

Models available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/collections/QCRI/fanar-20):

• Fanar-27B-Instruct: 27B LLM with 32K context
• Oryx-IVU: Arabic-aware image & video understanding (8B)
• Oryx-IG: Culturally-grounded image generation
• Diwan: Classical Arabic poetry generation