https://fdalvi.github.io/tags/qatar-ai/ Recent content in Qatar AI on Fahim Dalvi Hugo en Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://fdalvi.github.io/projects/fanar/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://fdalvi.github.io/projects/fanar/ <p>Fanar is Qatar&rsquo;s sovereign GenAI platform, built to preserve the Arabic language and culture. I lead the pretraining team and contribute across other teams as well.</p> <p>Training at this scale of ~200 GPUs, massive datasets, and large models is super demanding, but in the best way. It&rsquo;s brought every foundational CS concept from my university days back to life: distributed systems, networking, databases, security, Data Structures, Compilers and more. Also one of the largest projects I&rsquo;ve worked on in terms of the number (and variety) of people involved, which has been incredibly fun and rewarding as well!</p>