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Napster and HUMAIN Partner to Bring Arabic-Native AI to Public and Private Organizations Across the Middle East

Napster and PIF-owned AI firm HUMAIN have announced a strategic partnership to bring Arabic-native, embodied AI experiences to public and private organizations across the MENA region. The collaboration integrates HUMAIN IQ, the ALLAM large language model, and real-time Arabic voice technologies with Napster's multimodal agent infrastructure and Large Persona Models. The initiative aims to deploy culturally fluent digital employees capable of interacting naturally via voice, video, and text.

• Napster and HUMAIN officially announced their strategic MENA partnership on October 12, 2026, in Riyadh.
• Napster gains secure API access to HUMAIN's ALLAM proprietary LLM, HUMAIN Voice ASR Real Time, and HUMAIN Voice TTS Real Time.
• The integrated solution combines HUMAIN's Arabic models with Napster's video presence, Large Persona Model technology, and multimodal agent infrastructure.

HUMAIN and MiniMax Launch humain-m3 Arabic AI Research Preview

HUMAIN, a Saudi PIF company, announced at LEAP 2026 the launch of humain-m3, a frontier Arabic language model commissioned by HUMAIN and delivered by MiniMax. The 428-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model was further pre-trained on more than one trillion tokens of Arabic-native content. In evaluations across seven public Arabic benchmarks, humain-m3 achieved the highest average performance among frontier models tested. The model is available immediately in research preview through HUMAIN Node, HUMAIN's platform offering developers, researchers and enterprises access to advanced AI models and inference capabilities. An open-weight release under the MiniMax Community License is targeted for next month, following completion of safety training and alignment. The launch is part of HUMAIN's strategy to strengthen Arabic AI development and expand access to frontier intelligence.

• HUMAIN unveiled Arabic language model humain-m3 at LEAP 2026, developed by MiniMax.
• humain-m3 is a 428-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model pre-trained on over one trillion Arabic-native tokens.
• humain-m3 achieved the highest average performance across seven public Arabic benchmarks among frontier models evaluated.

Adobe, MCIT and HUMAIN Expand Saudi AI Creative Access

Adobe has expanded a partnership with the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and HUMAIN to provide over 27 million eligible Saudi citizens and residents aged 13 and over with 12 months of free access to Adobe Firefly Standard and Adobe Express Premium. The commitment is valued at over $4 billion. Adobe and HUMAIN will also launch a jointly developed image-generation model built with Adobe Firefly Foundry and tuned to Saudi cultural context and Arabic-language prompts. Adobe announced Modern Standard Arabic right-to-left support on Adobe Express and will support MCIT startup programs by offering one year of free creative-tool access, expertise and training starting early 2027. Adobe will also expand skilling via the Adobe Digital Academy and a joint learning initiative with LinkedIn.

• Adobe will provide over 27 million eligible Saudi citizens and residents (aged 13+) with 12 months of free access to Adobe Firefly Standard and Adobe Express Premium.
• Adobe's commitment for the program in Saudi Arabia is valued at over $4 billion.
• Adobe and HUMAIN will launch a jointly developed image generation model built with Adobe Firefly Foundry and tuned to Saudi cultural context and Arabic-language prompts.

Newly appointed Chief Human Resources Officer Shiori Nagata on the transformation of people and organizations in the AI era: "NEC has cultivated a culture of open communication"

New corporate blog post announcing the appointment of Shiori Nagata as Chief Human Resources Officer, focusing on HR transformation in the AI era.