AI RESEARCH
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.16397v1 Announce Type: cross We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to deployment infrastructure, was designed and operated entirely at QCRI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Fanar 2.0 is a story of resource-constrained excellence: the effort ran on 256 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, with Arabic having only ~0.5% of web data despite 400M native speakers. Fanar 2.0 adopts a disciplined strategy of data quality over quantity, targeted continual pre.