Yesterday we reported that Zetrix AI, a digital services development company formerly known as MyEG, has developed a new AI service focused on answering questions about Islam called NurAI.
While we showed that NurAI was available via web browsers and Android and iOS apps yesterday, the app was officially launched today, and was officiated by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi.
The platform offers guidance that is in line with Sharia law in various fields, covering a wide spectrum of subjects, from contemporary topics such as law, healthcare and finance, to core Islamic knowledge covering history, Islamic philosophy and Quranic studies.
As we reported yesterday, the foundation of the NurAI service is the DeepSeek v3 public language model developed using a dedicated dataset to ensure that the information presented to users is authentic and does not face common issues with AI use such as hallucinations and the production of false information.
The NurAI development team will form a Shariah coordination framework in collaboration with major religious bodies, including the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (“JAKIM”), the Indonesian Ulema Council (“MUI”), the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (“IIFA”), and Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
Since the NurAI project is a major collaboration between three countries, NurAI is offered in Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic, and English language support.
NurAI also comes with two question modes, namely Ask NurAI which will provide you with complete answers along with the best examples to answer your questions quickly, and Ask Ustaz, which can be seen as an experimental feature where it uses the knowledge, wisdom, and conversational style of famous scholars from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Egypt. The answers shown through Ask Ustaz are also seen as more relaxed than Ask NurAI.
Users can ask NurAI various common religious questions for free and unlimited. For NurAI to generate revenue from this service, NurAI Plus and NurAI Pro subscription services were introduced which also offer additional functions such as a faraid calculator and a modern medical bioethics guide.
The launch of the NurAI AI application can be seen as the first phase in the launch of the entire service. In the upcoming second phase, the focus will shift to institutional integration through B2B and B2G models. In this phase, NurAI will be offered to Islamic financial institutions, fintech platforms, halal certification agencies and Shariah legal institutions.