Inception42 announced on Thursday the launch of Seraj, a new enterprise AI model purpose-built to advance Arabic-language AI capabilities for government and enterprise applications, developed jointly with Microsoft and available through Compass, Core42’s sovereign AI platform. Built on GPT-4.1, Seraj combines frontier AI performance with advanced Arabic language understanding and cultural nuance, addressing a longstanding challenge where frontier models show gaps in Arabic linguistic precision, dialect comprehension, cultural context and safety handling. Targeted mid-training techniques were applied using curated, high-quality Arabic datasets, resulting in a significant improvement in Arabic performance while preserving underlying reasoning and multilingual strengths. Seraj supports enterprise use cases including document understanding, summarisation, translation, question answering, workflow automation, bilingual Arabic-English applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge-intensive tasks across sectors such as government, education, legal services, Islamic studies, media and financial services.