Prime Highlights:
- Misraj launches Kawn, a new Arabic language model designed to support businesses and public institutions across multiple industries.
- The company also introduces Workforces, a platform to automate tasks, manage virtual assistants, and improve efficiency in operations, customer support, marketing, and sales.
Key Facts:
- Kawn features Mutarjimfor Arabic-English translation and Lahjawi, which supports 15 Arabic dialects for better communication.
- The model was trained on over 2 trillion Arabic tokensand uses a layer injection method to handle dialect variations without retraining the entire system.
Background:
Saudi Arabia-based lab Misraj has unveiled Kawn, a new Arabic language model, at this week’s AWS re: Invent event. The model is designed to support Arabic communication across industries, providing businesses and public institutions with a reliable tool that understands the Arabic language and its many dialects.
Kawn includes Mutarjim, which translates between Arabic and English, and Lahjawi, the first model that works with 15 Arabic dialects. These tools make communication easier, especially for chatbots and customer support. Kawn also has Document OCR, which can read and extract Arabic text from documents.
CEO Safwan AlModhayan noted that most existing systems are first built for English and later adapted to Arabic, which leads to lower accuracy and poor support for different dialects. “Kawn was created to address a major gap in the market: the absence of high-quality Arabic-native AI systems that can understand the full linguistic and cultural complexity of the Arabic-speaking world,” he said.
To develop Kawn, Misraj curated over 2 trillion Arabic tokens from a variety of domains and regions, using rigorous quality filters. The team also used a layer injection method to help the model learn different Arabic dialects without needing to retrain the whole system.
Alongside Kawn, Misraj introduced Workforces, a platform that lets users create and manage virtual assistants to automate tasks, analyze data, and improve efficiency. The platform is especially useful for teams in operations, customer support, marketing, and sales.
AlModhayan said the company plans to expand Kawn with sector-specific models for industries such as healthcare, finance, legal, education, and public services. The team is also working on multimodal capabilities that integrate text, speech, and vision for more interactive experiences.
“Kawn and Workforces are designed to enable a new era of Arabic-first digital transformation,” AlModhayan said. “We aim to give organizations the tools they need to innovate quickly without rebuilding core AI systems from the ground up.”
