Core42 (G42 / Jais)

Middle East Est. 2019 Enterprise agreements; developer API available with key.

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Abu Dhabi's sovereign AI cloud company (G42 Group), home of the Jais Arabic-first foundation model.

What They Do

Core42 is the AI cloud and infrastructure arm of the G42 group. Alongside managed GPU cloud services, Core42 co-developed Jais — the world's most advanced Arabic-first bilingual (Arabic–English) LLM — with Inception and MBZUAI. Jais models range from 13B to 70B parameters and are released as open-weight.

Mission

Drive the UAE's AI ambitions and provide sovereign, trustworthy AI infrastructure for the Arab world.

FAQ

: Jais is pre-trained from scratch on 395 billion Arabic and 395 billion English tokens, with Arabic instruction-tuning. Unlike models adapted from English LLMs, Jais has a balanced bilingual foundation.
: Yes. Jais 13B, 30B, and 70B checkpoint weights are available on HuggingFace under the Apache 2.0 licence.