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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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Samsung And Spotify Offer Free Premium Deal In MENA
Nearly seven in ten streams in the region come from 18-to-34-year-olds — the audience Samsung is hoping to entice into its ecosystem.
Samsung has announced a partnership with Spotify spanning the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye, bundling Spotify Premium with select devices across its ecosystem. The headline offer — up to four months of Premium for free — is a first for the region.
Customers in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Türkiye who buy any OLED or 98-inch television, or any Galaxy S or Z series mobile device, get four months of Spotify Premium. The offer, tiered by market and device, is available at retail and on Samsung.com, and redeemed through the Samsung Promotion and Samsung Members apps.
For Samsung, the strategy is less about free music than about lock-in. The Korean tech giant’s pitch is continuity: a track starts on a Galaxy smartphone through Galaxy Buds on the commute, moves to a Samsung TV and soundbar in the living room, and stays controllable from a Galaxy Watch. The more seamlessly music travels between those devices, the harder it becomes to swap any one of them for a rival’s.
“Technology should bring people closer to the things they love, and few things connect people the way music does,” said Omar Saheb, Regional VP of Marketing and Online Business at Samsung Electronics MENA. The partnership, he added, gives customers “a genuine reason to choose Samsung for the experience, not only the product”.
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For subscribers, Premium brings the usual package: ad-free listening, offline downloads, richer audio quality on Galaxy Buds and Samsung sound devices, and Jam, which lets friends build a shared queue.
“At Spotify, we are always working to make every listening moment feel more personal, meaningful, and worth it,” said Rami Jamal, Head of Partnerships at Spotify for South Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
The demographics go a long way to explaining the strategy. Across MENA, Türkiye, and Pakistan, nearly seven in ten Spotify streams come from listeners aged 18 to 34, according to the company — precisely the audience Samsung wants inside its hardware ecosystem before buying habits harden.
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