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Product of the Day · 2026-09-21

JAIS

Inception · The Arabic-first large language model built in Abu Dhabi, open-sourced for the region.

Jais 2 is a recent enough release that it's still under-discussed outside the region — worth a dedicated day rather than a footnote in a roundup of Western LLMs.

What it does

An open-source Arabic-English bilingual large language model built by Inception, a G42 subsidiary, with Cerebras and MBZUAI. The current generation, Jais 2, is a 70-billion-parameter model trained on the largest Arabic-first dataset assembled to date, with downloadable weights and a hosted chat interface at jaischat.ai.

Why Nakoda noticed it

Nakoda leads its UAE picks with JAIS because it's the clearest example of the region producing genuinely open AI infrastructure rather than only consuming it — trained locally, released openly, and built to take Arabic seriously as a first-class language rather than a translation layer over English training data.

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