Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 18, 2026
Is Jais 3 state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 15, 2026; no independent results yet.
A family of six open, Arabic-native models for agentic work, 0.9B to 375B, built on IFM's K2 Horizon. Released with Jais Speech, an Arabic speech-to-text model that covers dialects.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- IFM (MBZUAI) with Inception42
- Announced
- Oct 15, 2026
- API
- Live
- Open weights
- Published
- Parameters
- 0.9B to 375B (six models)
- Focus
- Arabic-native agentic models
- Built on
- IFM's K2 Horizon
- Includes
- Jais Speech: Arabic speech-to-text across dialects
- Weights
- Hugging Face
- API
- Access linked by the lab
- Serving
- Day-one vLLM and SGLang support
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Self-reported
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: Jais 3 375B matches the best open models, and with Jais Speech is the most advanced Arabic AI stack available.
Receipts
Sources
LABIFM announcement on Xx.com/IFM_AI/status/2110641827778843010 · Oct 15, 2026Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.