Jais (language model)
Jais is an open-source large language model developed in the United Arab Emirates and launched in August 2023. It was trained on both English- and Arabic-language data.
Origin[edit]
Jais is named after Jebel Jais, the highest mountain in the United Arab Emirates.[1] It was created in collaboration between the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, California-based Cerebras Systems and Inception, a subsidiary of G42.[1][2][3]
Training[edit]
Jais has 13 billion parameters, with an update for 30 billion in the works as of October 2023.[3] It was trained for over 21 days by a team in Abu Dhabi on a subset of Cerebras's Condor Galaxy 1 supercomputer.[1][2]
Its training dataset consisted of Arabic and English, some containing computer code.[1][3] According to Timothy Baldwin, provost, and professor of natural language processing at MBZUAI, training the model on a diverse Arabic dataset allows it to switch between dialects.[3]
Features[edit]
Jais focuses exclusively on English and Arabic translations.[4] Additional functionality for working with images, graphs and tabular data is planned for future releases.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Cherney, Max A. (2023-08-30). "UAE's G42 launches open source Arabic language AI model". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ a b Kerr, Simeon; Murgia, Madhumita (2023-08-30). "UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ a b c d e Tutton, Mark (2023-10-04). "Arabic AI could help open doors for other languages". CNN. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ Ray, Tiernan (September 1, 2023). "Cerebras and Abu Dhabi build world's most powerful Arabic-language AI model". ZDNET. Retrieved 2023-10-08.