MCIT announces participation of four data providers in Arabic GenAI project

Doha, Qatar : The Artificial Intelligence Committee at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) announced Wednesday the partic...

Doha, Qatar : The Artificial Intelligence Committee at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) announced Wednesday the participation of four prominent institutions in the Arabic Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) project “Fanar”.

This announcement was made during a meeting that included representatives from the government and academic sectors. The participating institutions are the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs (Awqaf), Qatar National Library (QNL), Al Jazeera, and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS).

This collaboration is part of ongoing efforts by MCIT and its partners to provide Fanar with high-quality data and achieve a target of 300 billion words for the Arabic GenAI model, Fanar.

Fanar project was announced at the opening of the 4th edition of Qatar Economic Forum.  The data providers will contribute to building an extensive database of Arabic content, which will serve as a valuable resource for AI solutions such as machine translation, voice recognition, and natural language processing in Arabic. These new data sources will enhance the development of a more accurate and efficient linguistic model for Fanar, thereby improving its overall performance and understanding of the Arabic language.

The involvement of these prestigious institutions marks a significant step in the development of Fanar project, aligning with its goals to empower the performance of Arabic GenAI, strengthen the Arabic position on the global stage, and broaden its applications.