engineering · December 12, 2025 · 6 min read

Building multilingual AI for Ethiopia and the UAE

What it takes to ship Amharic + Arabic + English from day one — typography, models, and policy.

Multilingual AI is rarely just about translation. It's about typography, named-entity recognition for non-Latin scripts, and the policy posture for what models are allowed to say in which languages.

Authors

Dawit Mengistu
Chief AI Officer