Funding: Own budget (9)
Elaph — the first Arab online daily to deploy an AI news anchor. Its AI presenter 'Hala Al Wardi' is a digital human-like anchor that delivers the news, built through Advancia.ai, a joint venture between Elaph and media-and-digital-tech firm Virtual Minds; paired with customizable news services and AI-powered news-credibility checks for 'personalized, accessible and credible content.' Elaph is a London-based,…
'Tamara' AI journalist — scans 6,000+ websites and 23,000 online articles and social media comments per millisecond; gathers, analyzes and publishes using proprietary 'GAP' (Gather, Analyze, Publish) methodology; detects potential fake news; reformats news in any format to match different outlet styles and journalist requirements
AI multilingual lookalike of anchor Hadil Eleyan presented live news in Russian, Spanish and Mandarin
SRMG Media Solutions (SMS) — AI-driven audience segmentation and AdTech platform using first-party data and real-time analytics across SRMG's full portfolio (Asharq News, Arab News, Asharq Business with Bloomberg, Al Eqtisadiah, Sayidaty, Thmanyah); reaching 170M+ users
AI-powered multilingual translation platform: readers access Arab News content in 50 languages via adaptive ML for contextually accurate translation; launched at FIPP World Media Congress on the newspaper's 50th anniversary
AI-powered podcast features: automatic music/background audio removal from any episode, transcript generation, keyword search within episodes, silent-moment trimming; offered as part of paid subscription tier on Radio Thmanyah app