Multilingual AI evaluation · Building tools · Writing
Tarek Gara
I work in the seam where language meets machine.
Multilingual AI quality at Innodata, across Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Building Folio, Tayyar, and Thagrah. Writing at The Loop.
In a Cyber Politics & Government MA at TAU (thesis track, 2025 – 2027).
Currently
what's holding my attention this week- Working
- multilingual AI quality at Innodata
- Building
- Folio, Tayyar, Thagrah
- Writing
- Deadly Sand, sequel to Mortal Past
- Editing
- The Loop, monthly
- Studying
- an MA in Cyber Politics & Government at TAU (thesis track, 2025–2027)
Writing
long-form on multilingual AI, alignment, and how products drift as they grow Feb 2026 Feb 2026 Jan 2026
How AI killed the soul of the world's favorite language-learning app
A look at Duolingo's user-(retention)-centered approach.
Why AI thinks in English and forgets in Arabic
An audit of the architectural friction and reasoning bottlenecks across Semitic languages.
The sanitization of intelligence: how the alignment tax is killing the LLM frontier
On the alignment tax, corporate risk-aversion, and what "safe" AI gives up on its way to being safe.
The rest
books, ventures, playgroundsA letter, once a month.
Essays land here first, then I republish them as The Loop on LinkedIn.
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