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Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models

Mohamed Anwar·Abed Alhakim Freihat·George Ibrahim·Mostafa Awad·Abdelrahman Sadallah·Gurpreet Gosal·Gokulakrishnan Ramakrishnan·Sarath Chandran·Biswajit Mishra·Rituraj Joshi·Ahmed Frikha·Etienne Goffinet·Abhishek Maiti·Ali El Filali·Sarah AlBarri·Samujjwal Ghosh·Rahul Pal·Parvez Mullah·Awantika Shukla·Sajid siddiki·Samta Kamboj·Onkar Pandit·Sunil Kumar Sahu·AbdelRahman Elbadawy·Amr Mohamed·Ahmad Chamma·Evan Dufraisse·Abdelaziz Bounhar·Dani Bouch·Hadi Abdine·Guokan Shang·Fajri Koto·Yuxia Wang·Zhuohan Xie·Ali Mekky·Rania Elbadry·Sarfraz Ahmad·Momina Ahsan·Omar El Herraoui·Daniil Orel·Hasan Iqbal·Kareem Elzeky·Mervat Abassy·Kareem Elozeiri·Saadeldine Eletter·Farah Atif·Nurdaulet Mukhituly·Haonan Li·Xudong Han·Aaryamonvikram Singh·Zainul Abedien Ahmed Quraishi·Neha Sengupta·Larry Murray·Avraham Sheinin·Joel Hestness·Natalia Vassilieva·Hector Xuguang Ren·Zhengzhong Liu·Michalis Vazirgiannis·Preslav Nakov
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Abstract

Jais 2 is a family of Arabic-centric large language models developed jointly by MBZUAI, Cerebras, and Inception, designed to advance Arabic-centric language modeling, with strong performance across the Arabic and culturally grounded benchmarks evaluated in this report. The family includes, to our knowledge, the largest open Arabic-centric LLM trained from scratch at 70B parameters, and a competitive 8B-parameter variant among the evaluated open models. A custom Arabic-centric vocabulary enables efficient training and inference. In addition, an optimized architecture and training recipe yield highly compute-efficient training. With a substantially smaller token budget than comparable models, Jais 2 achieves strong Arabic performance on the benchmarks considered in this report and competitive English results. The models obtain leading results among the evaluated open models on OALL2 and AraGen. They also perform strongly on several culturally grounded Arabic benchmarks, including poetry, religion, cuisine, and dream interpretation, as well as in general tasks such as translation and summarization. We release the models in HuggingFace under a commercially permissive license. Jais 2 70B is also released as a chat app on the Web, iOS, and Android; it runs on Cerebras hardware, delivering up to 2,000 tokens per second, and enabling high-throughput Arabic-centric chat serving in our deployment setting. By uniting scale, linguistic diversity, cultural fidelity, openness, and speed, Jais 2 provides an open-weight foundation intended to support further research and development in Arabic-centric LLMs.

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Mohamed Anwar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, George Ibrahim, Mostafa Awad, Abdelrahman Sadallah, Gurpreet Gosal, Gokulakrishnan Ramakrishnan, Sarath Chandran, Biswajit Mishra, Rituraj Joshi, Ahmed Frikha, Etienne Goffinet, Abhishek Maiti, Ali El Filali, Sarah AlBarri, Samujjwal Ghosh, Rahul Pal, Parvez Mullah, Awantika Shukla, Sajid siddiki, Samta Kamboj, Onkar Pandit, Sunil Kumar Sahu, AbdelRahman Elbadawy, Amr Mohamed, Ahmad Chamma, Evan Dufraisse, Abdelaziz Bounhar, Dani Bouch, Hadi Abdine, Guokan Shang, Fajri Koto, Yuxia Wang, Zhuohan Xie, Ali Mekky, Rania Elbadry, Sarfraz Ahmad, Momina Ahsan, Omar El Herraoui, Daniil Orel, Hasan Iqbal, Kareem Elzeky, Mervat Abassy, Kareem Elozeiri, Saadeldine Eletter, Farah Atif, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Aaryamonvikram Singh, Zainul Abedien Ahmed Quraishi, Neha Sengupta, Larry Murray, Avraham Sheinin, Joel Hestness, Natalia Vassilieva, Hector Xuguang Ren, Zhengzhong Liu, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Preslav Nakov. 2026-07-07. Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13580

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