Cerebras and Abu Dhabi build world's most powerful Arabic

Jais-Chat, named for the highest mountain in the United Arab Emirates, can take an Arabic or English prompt and complete the phrase, just as ChatGPT does.

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In an age when, supposedly, language is all the rage, artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are conspicuously narrow: they mostly deal with English to the exclusion of the world's hundreds of other commonly spoken languages. 

In a sign of things to come, AI computer startup Cerebras Systems this week announced it has partnered with Abu Dhabi's Inception, a subsidiary of investment firm G42 of the United Arab Emirates, to create what it calls the world's most powerful open-source large language model for Arabic, a language spoken by approximately 400 million people worldwide. 

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