Jais 3
Six open Arabic-focused language models from 900M to 375B parameters with 512K context, plus Jais Speech for Arabic recognition.
Overview
The Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42 released Jais 3 on October 15, 2026: six open language models from 900 million to 375 billion parameters, all with a 512,000-token context window and built on IFM's K2 Horizon fleet. They ship with Jais Speech, an Arabic and dialect speech recognition model. IFM reports its 7B model's average Arabic score rose from 56.4 (K2 Horizon base) to 79.6 on an audited suite of 24 Arabic benchmarks. Weights are on Hugging Face with vLLM and SGLang deployment support.
This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.
Key features
- Six models from 900M (phone-sized) to 375B parameters, including 3.7B, 7B and 32B
- 512,000-token context window across the family
- Jais Speech for Arabic and dialect speech recognition
- Benchmarks, evaluation code and five training checkpoints per model released
- Weights on Hugging Face; vLLM and SGLang supported
Use cases
- Arabic-language chat and agent applications
- On-device Arabic assistants using the 900M model
- Arabic speech transcription across dialects
Pricing
Open weights on Hugging Face; the license is not named in the announcement. Jais chat and mobile apps run on the same models.
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Dates and sources
- Released
- 15 Oct 2026
- Record updated
- 15 Oct 2026
- Record last checked
- 15 Oct 2026