Arabic-made AI you can run yourself
Open AI models and tools built for Arabic, many by labs in the Gulf. They aren't in the main list because they have fewer GitHub stars, but they matter if you need Arabic.
To chat with a model privately on your own computer, use an app such as LM Studio or Jan and load a GGUF version if one exists. Bigger versions need a strong graphics card.
Arabic chat models
An Arabic–English chat model. Jais 2 (Dec 2025, 70B) was trained on about 600B Arabic words-pieces plus English and code.
Open weights on Hugging Face. Check the model's license.
Open ↗An Arabic-first version of the Falcon-H1 models. Its makers say it tops the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard (their claim).
Open weights on Hugging Face. Check the license.
Open ↗Saudi Arabia's Arabic–English model. The 7B preview is on Hugging Face; a larger ALLaM powers the HUMAIN Chat app.
Its license is in a separate file and is reported to be research-only — read it before work use.
Open ↗Qatar's Arabic-centric models. Fanar 2.0 (2026) is a 27B model; the earlier Fanar-1-9B-Instruct is reported as Apache-2.0.
Open weights on Hugging Face.
Open ↗Good to know: AI models still do better in Modern Standard Arabic than in dialects like Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine or Moroccan Darija. Arabic-made models handle dialects better than general models, but tests show they still lag. Source: AraDiCE (2025).
Arabic text and speech tools (for developers)
Turns Arabic and English text into speech, and adds Arabic diacritics (tashkeel) automatically.
Code MIT, model Apache-2.0: free, even for business.
Open ↗A toolkit for Arabic text: word analysis, dialect identification and finding names in text. Actively updated.
MIT license: free, even for business.
Open ↗Arabic speech recognition, classification and text-to-speech.
MIT license.
Open ↗Splits, tags and adds diacritics to Arabic text using QCRI's Farasa tools.
The Python wrapper is MIT; check Farasa's own terms.
Open ↗Pretrained Arabic language models (BERT, GPT-2, ELECTRA) used inside many Arabic apps. Last updated 2022.
No license listed on GitHub — ask before reuse.
Open ↗Small Python helpers for Arabic text, such as removing diacritics and normalizing letters.
GPL-3.0: free, with sharing rules.
Open ↗Tools in the Atlas that work with Arabic
Tools whose docs list Arabic, or that are well known to support it.
whisper by openai
Read text from images and turn PDFs into structured dataPaddleOCR by PaddlePaddle
Read text from scanned images and photostesseract by tesseract-ocr
Transcribe speech to text on your own computerwhisper.cpp by ggml-org
Read text from images in 80+ languagesEasyOCR by JaidedAI
Transcribe audio faster with Whisperfaster-whisper by SYSTRAN
Transcribe audio with word-level timing and speaker labelswhisperX by m-bain
Transcribe and translate audio on your computer, offlinebuzz by chidiwilliams
Transcribe audio and video on your own computervibe by thewh1teagle
Translate text offlineargos-translate by argosopentech
Let AI agents figure out how any app or program worksrea by morluto
Make Claude Code and other coding agents work betterECC by affaan-m
Have an AI agent write and fix code in your terminalopencode by anomalyco
Use thousands of open AI models for text, images and audio in Pythontransformers by huggingface
Build AI chatbots and workflows without codingdify by langgenius
Get a ChatGPT-style interface for any AI model, including local onesopen-webui by open-webui
Make AI coding agents design better-looking apps and websitesui-ux-pro-max-skill by nextlevelbuilder
Turn a codebase and its docs into a map an AI can searchgraphify by Graphify-Labs
Give your AI coding agent a memory between sessionsclaude-mem by thedotmack
Design websites, apps and motion with a collaborative AI agentopen-design by nexu-io
Clone voices, dub videos and transcribe speech, all offlineVoiceStudio by debpalash
Collect data from websites, even ones that block botsScrapling by D4Vinci
Use hundreds of AI models, many free, through one connectionOmniRoute by cheaper-inference
Let AI find jobs, score them against your CV and tailor applicationscareer-ops by career-ops-hq