Jais 3
Open Arabic-first models from Abu Dhabi with agentic coding scores
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Jais 3 is the October 2026 release of the Arabic-centred Jais family from MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models and Inception, part of G42, trained with Cerebras. It comprises six open language models from under one billion to 375 billion parameters, released under the Apache licence on Hugging Face, plus a speech-recognition model. An agentic platform built on it is announced as coming soon.
What makes it relevant to developers is a first: the flagship model's card publishes agentic coding results, 70.2 on SWE-Bench Verified and 73.8 on Terminal-Bench, where earlier Arabic-centred models published no code numbers at all and scored poorly when others tested them. Those figures trail the strongest open models from China, and no HumanEval or MBPP results are given, so treat it as promising rather than proven for day-to-day coding.
Pricing in October 2026: the weights are free to download and self-host; no hosted price is published.
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Why we picked it
Our coding guide found no Arabic-native coding assistant anywhere in the Gulf. Jais is the closest thing: an open, Arabic-first model family that for the first time publishes agentic coding scores and promises an agent platform. It belongs in the catalog as the one regional entry worth watching.
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