IFM and Inception42 Launch Jais 3 Arabic AI Models

Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) and Inception42 introduced Jais 3 in a press release, a fleet of six open language models and an Arabic speech recognition model. The language models range from 900 million to 375 billion parameters and are based on IFM's K2 Horizon models.

Jais 3 supports Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialects from the Gulf to North Africa. It can process speech that switches between Arabic, English, and French, while Jais Speech can identify dialects, retain foreign words in their original script, and add Arabic vowel marks to transcripts.

The language models share a 512,000 token context window and support tool use for tasks involving documents, spreadsheets, presentations, websites, and web searches. In evaluations conducted by IFM and Inception42, the 3.7 billion parameter model outperformed the open models tested with up to 5 billion parameters on Arabic and agent tasks.

Jais 3 and Jais Speech are available on Hugging Face, with deployment support for vLLM and SGLang. IFM is also releasing its audited Arabic benchmarks, evaluation code, and five training checkpoints for each model.