Community-tested models

AI models tested for Arabic

Does it actually work for Saudi, Najdi, Hijazi or Gulf Arabic? Benchmarks rarely say. The community tests these models on real speech and text — and reports back.

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AIN

MBZUAI

Vision

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Arabic: fullMSAaren

Bilingual Arabic-English multimodal model built on Qwen2-VL and trained on 3.6M multimodal samples, roughly a third of them authentic Arabic. Strong on Arabic OCR and document understanding, with human evaluation across 17 Arab countries. MIT-licensed.

Hugging Face

DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek

LLM

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Arabic: noneenmulti

Open reasoning model under a plain MIT licence, allowing commercial use and derivatives including distillation. Arabic is not a declared target language — the card lists no languages — so Arabic behaviour is incidental. Superseded within the DeepSeek line by the R1-0528 update and later V3.x releases.

Hugging Face