
Riyadh – Sharikat Mubasher: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Tarjama, an Arabic language and AI solutions provider, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at LEAP 2026 to explore the deployment of enterprise-ready Arabic artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across the region.
As per a recent press release, the collaboration will focus on combining Tarjama’s Arabic AI expertise with Qualcomm Technologies’ AI optimization and deployment capabilities to help organizations move AI applications from experimentation into production environments.
Under the MoU, the companies plan to explore onboarding and optimizing selected Arabic AI models on Qualcomm Dragonfly AI infrastructure technologies, evaluate their performance and deployment readiness, and advance applications spanning generative AI, conversational AI, reasoning, and agentic AI.
Tarjama will contribute its Arabic.AI platform, Arabic-native models, and enterprise AI applications developed for Arabic-speaking markets, while Qualcomm Technologies will provide expertise in AI acceleration, inferencing performance, scalability, and deployment optimization.
The companies also plan to explore technical collaboration, benchmarking, and model optimization across sectors including government, telecom, financial services, healthcare, and education.
On this occasion, Charles Chebli, Managing Director of UAE and Head of AI Cloud Middle East Africa at Qualcomm Technologies, said the collaboration aims to support the deployment of high-performance, efficient, and scalable Arabic AI solutions for enterprise and government applications.
Meanwhile, Nour Al Hassan, Founder and CEO of Tarjama, said the partnership aims to help organizations move from Arabic AI experimentation to production by combining linguistic expertise with AI optimization and deployment capabilities.