Saudi Arabia’s Misraj AI has introduced a new Arabic-first AI system at Amazon’s big tech event, AWS re:Invent 2025. This system in question here is called Kawn, and it has been designed to understand Arabic the way people actually speak it. Saudi Arabia’s first language is Arabic, so it’s given that the majority of the population receives information written in Arabic. With a new AI system that can do things for you while understanding the common dialect is such a big deal
Why the launch of Kawn is important
As you may know, most of the world’s AI tools have been created mainly to serve in English. Yes, there are multilingual support, but, English is at core because Internet content is mostly English, and that’s what most models are trained on. This is exactly why companies in the Middle East, with important documents in Arabic, struggle, as computers often can’t read them properly. Misraj AI wants to fix that with Kawn, which understands Arabic first, and not as a translation or afterthought.
The company says that their new Lahjawi dialect engine can understand more than a dozen Arabic dialects with very high accuracy. That includes the different ways people speak in places like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and more. For the first time, businesses can use AI that doesn’t get confused by regional accents or local phrases.
Details about new tools launched
It’s worth noting that Misraj AI launched two major AI tools. The first is Kawn AI Ecosystem, which includes Large language models (like ChatGPT but trained for Arabic), Vision-language models (AI that can understand both pictures and text), Embedding models (used to search and organize information), and RAG pipelines (AI that can look up correct information instead of guessing). All of these have been designed to understand Arabic exactly the way people use it in real life.
Another one is SeamlessAPI, which gives developers an easy way to use Kawn. With just one API call, a developer can translate Arabic, summarize long text, find which dialect someone is speaking, pull useful information from documents, and Analyze reports or PDFs
Think of it as a “super tool” that takes something messy and turns it into clean, easy-to-use information.
Not to forget, Misraj AI also launched Baseer. It’s a tool that helps computers read scanned Arabic documents. Baseer can convert those into clean, well-structured text that AI can understand. This matters because tons of government and business records in the Middle East are still only available as scanned pages.
