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This UAE Platform Wants To Replace Fashion Photo Shoots With AI
Built in Ajman, neofashion.ai launches with a free tier that puts studio-grade product imagery within reach of independent boutiques.
neofashion.ai, an AI content platform built by UAE-based Fipera, has opened self-serve access, letting any fashion brand generate on-brand product photography, video, and marketing content from its own product photos and references. The launch follows a private beta in which three global apparel brands used the platform in live production, turning their own product images into on-model photography, e-commerce packshots, and campaign video.
The pitch is aimed at the economics of fashion imagery. “Fashion brands don’t have a creativity problem, they have a consistency and cost problem,” said Ali Alkan, founder of Fipera. “Our beta brands are producing catalog-scale imagery in hours instead of weeks, and it looks unmistakably like their brand, because every generation is grounded in their own references, not a generic average”.
That consistency claim rests on how the platform handles brand data. Each customer’s product references, saved model personas, and brand profile sit in a walled-off workspace and shape every generation — the company’s answer to general-purpose image generators, which it says produce averages rather than a brand’s look. The result, according to Fipera, is casting, fabric behavior, lighting, and mood that hold steady across large catalogs, with no brand’s images or settings ever shared with another customer or used to train its output.
Access scales from boutique to enterprise. A credit-based free tier lets an independent boutique sign up and start generating the same day, while paid plans grow with the brand and enterprise customers add extra fine-tuning controls, API access, and service-level agreements. Modules cover on-model photography, sketch-to-photo, flat lay and cut-out packshots, studio photos, campaign video, and batch tools for seasonal collections, plus a native Shopify integration that lets merchants generate and attach imagery from inside their store catalog.
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The platform draws on Fipera’s experience in fashion trading and retail commerce, and the company places the launch within the UAE’s National AI Strategy 2031 and D33 economic agenda — a push to make the country an exporter of AI products, not merely an adopter. Fipera says it is opening conversations with strategic and institutional investors to expand across the GCC, Europe, and Asia.
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NEOPAY Wants To Follow Merchants Across Channels And Borders
A controlling 65% stake in noon payments would give NEOPAY access to marketplace sellers, online merchants and the payment flows they generate.
It’s been a long time since checkouts were single defined places. A merchant might take payments at a physical register, on its own website and through an online marketplace, sometimes in more than one country. NEOPAY wants to follow those transactions wherever they happen.
The UAE payments company has entered into an agreement to acquire a 65% controlling stake in noon payments. NEOPAY already runs the acquiring infrastructure that lets merchants accept card payments, along with omnichannel acceptance and a merchant services platform. This new deal would add noon payments’ embedded payments platform, e-commerce gateway and merchant network across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. That would considerably expand both NEOPAY’s digital commerce capabilities and its regional reach.
For merchants, the attraction is a single provider for online and in-store payments, plus faster settlements, data and analytics, and value-added financial services.
“Payments should be simple, reliable, and built for the markets they serve,” said Faraz Khalid, CEO of noon. His counterpart at NEOPAY, Vibhor Mundhada, added: “We have built a strong payments business in the UAE, and our ambition is now to take that capability across the region”. The acquisition, Mundhada added, would “expand our footprint into Saudi Arabia and Egypt” while reinforcing NEOPAY’s position at home.
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NEOPAY is also keen to point out potential payment volume increases. The company says noon payments’ integrations with marketplace sellers and online merchants create high transaction density in some of the region’s fastest-growing digital commerce segments. It also believes control of the business would give it access to those merchant relationships and payment flows, and speed up the rollout of alternative payment methods and installment options.
The combined roadmap targets faster merchant onboarding, better payment performance, tighter fraud controls and embedded financial services. The deal could also strengthen cross-border payments and settlement along key regional commerce corridors.
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