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Saudi Arabia’s SDAIA releases its Arabic model ALLaM on IBM watsonx

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Source: IBM Newsroom (Middle East and Africa)

The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) announced at IBM’s Think conference in Boston that its Arabic large language model ALLaM was running on IBM watsonx, where clients can tune and deploy it with IBM’s governance tools. SDAIA’s Esam Alwagait announced it on stage with IBM chief executive Arvind Krishna.

Why it matters

Saudi government agencies and companies gained an Arabic-language model built by their own national AI authority and offered through a major US enterprise platform.

When
21 May 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0197
Who
SDAIA, IBM; Arvind Krishna

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from IBM Newsroom (Middle East and Africa). Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at IBM Newsroom (Middle East and Africa)

Source copy: download the source PDF as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Document the source offers: the source PDF. Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0197: “Saudi Arabia’s SDAIA releases its Arabic model ALLaM on IBM watsonx.” wheresthe.ai, 21 May 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/sa-sdaia-allam-on-ibm-watsonx-2024-05/ (source: IBM Newsroom (Middle East and Africa)).

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