Doha, Qatar: The launch of enhanced Fanar 2.0, a platform which represents the generative Arabic language AI, during the opening of the second edition of the World Summit AI – Qatar 2025, yesterday is a significant milestone and a major leap in the Arabic AI technology.

Speaking to The Peninsula on the sidelines of the summit, Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid, Executive Director of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) highlighted the significance of advancing the Arabic-language AI research and innovation.

Elmagarmid said, “We are happy for the release of Fanar 2.0 today which is a qualitative move from Fanar 1.0. It includes multi-modalities that were not covered very well before”.

Source: https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/10/12/2025/fanar-20-a-major-leap-in-arabic-ai-technology