MCIT announces participation of four data providers in Arabic GenAI project – The Peninsula

MCIT announces participation of four data providers in Arabic GenAI project – The Peninsula

Minister of Communications and Information Technology H E Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai pose for a group photo with other officials.

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