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TechnologyJun 3
An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse. Souk Weekly technology. Photograph keyed to ai.

An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse

Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.

By Priya Chen