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MBZUAI and Inception42 Launch Jais 3 Arabic AI Models for Speech and Agents
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Fusion42 · 16 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
MBZUAI and Inception42 have launched Jais 3, a new family of Arabic-native AI models supporting language understanding, speech recognition, and agentic workflows, available in six sizes from 900 million to 375 billion parameters. The models feature a 512,000-token context window, dialect recognition across 19 Arab countries, and can be accessed via Hugging Face, enabling sovereign AI deployment with flexibility for enterprises and governments in the Arab region.
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You now have access to Arabic-native AI tools that integrate dialect speech recognition and agentic execution, freeing you from reliance on generic multilingual models and external AI services. This opens a new path to build truly localised AI applications that meet regional language and sovereignty needs.
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