Inception42 has launched Seraj, a new enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to strengthen Arabic-language capabilities for government and enterprise applications. The model was developed in collaboration with Microsoft and is now available through Compass, Core42’s sovereign AI platform.
Built on GPT-4.1, Seraj is designed to improve Arabic reasoning, linguistic accuracy and cultural understanding while maintaining strong performance in English and other languages. According to the company, the model addresses limitations that have affected the adoption of AI in Arabic-speaking markets, including gaps in dialect comprehension, cultural context and safety handling.
Rather than building a new Arabic-first model from scratch, Inception42 said it enhanced GPT-4.1 through targeted mid-training using curated Arabic datasets covering linguistics, cultural knowledge, safety scenarios and enterprise-specific content. The company said this approach improves Arabic performance while preserving the model’s multilingual reasoning capabilities.
Seraj is intended to support a range of enterprise applications, including document understanding, summarisation, translation, question answering, workflow automation, bilingual Arabic-English applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge-intensive tasks. It is aimed at sectors such as government, education, legal services, Islamic studies, media and financial services.
Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42, said: “Seraj is a gamechanger. Organizations across the region have been forced to choose between global AI capability and meaningful Arabic performance. Seraj changes that equation. From government services and legal analysis to customer engagement and knowledge management, the model is designed to help organizations deploy Arabic AI at scale with confidence.”
Rima Semaan, Director of AI and Enterprise Solutions at Microsoft UAE, said: “Microsoft’s collaboration with Inception42 on Seraj reflects a shared commitment to expanding the real-world impact of AI across the region. AI will create the greatest impact when it can understand and engage people in the languages they use every day. Seraj represents an important step forward in making advanced AI more relevant, accessible, and effective for Arabic-speaking organizations. By combining advanced frontier model capabilities with regionally relevant linguistic and cultural intelligence, Seraj supports the UAE’s broader vision of accelerating responsible AI adoption across governments, enterprises, and critical industries.”
The company said the launch comes amid growing demand across the region for AI systems capable of operating effectively in Arabic in complex enterprise environments, particularly in applications requiring high levels of accuracy, trust and contextual understanding.
