Generative AI in the Arab World

2023-2024 Market Report

This report provides the most comprehensive and commercially validated analysis of generative AI adoption, monetisation, and regulation across the Arab world. Covering ten national markets and twelve key sectors, it offers a robust assessment of how generative AI is being integrated into public services, corporate operations, and consumer applications—alongside the structural challenges that continue to limit local value capture.

The analysis combines verified market sizing with regional usage data, sector-level intelligence, and first-hand insights from enterprise leaders, policymakers, and technical practitioners. It benchmarks the leading providers—OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Anthropic—against emerging local alternatives, and offers a country-by-country breakdown of policy readiness, regulatory maturity, and infrastructure dependency.

The report tracks both top-down initiatives—such as sovereign AI model programmes in the UAE and Saudi Arabia—and informal usage patterns in markets such as Morocco and Egypt, where GenAI is reshaping workflows in education, media, and freelance services.

This publication is designed for senior professionals in government, finance, technology, and consulting who require reliable data and strategic clarity on the regional GenAI landscape.

Why You Cannot Afford to Miss This Report

The future is shaped by those who read the signals before they become headlines. This report is a strategic instrument that separates those who are guessing from those who are informed.

In the Arab World, generative AI is not a trend. It is an emerging economic lever, a diplomatic asset, and a competitive risk. Stakeholders who possess the intelligence in this report are not only better prepared to navigate regulatory shifts, infrastructure gaps, or localisation opportunities—they are signalling to peers, partners, and competitors that they are operating from a position of clarity.

This report offers access to the real market dynamics beneath the headlines. Access to the players, the models, the blind spots, and the untapped value chains. And in a region where AI strategies are unfolding behind closed doors and across sovereign networks, access is everything.