Jais 2 8B Chat
Jais 2 8B Chat was trained from scratch on Arabic and English by MBZUAI, Inception and Cerebras. Its Arabic-focused vocabulary supports standard Arabic, dialects and mixed Arabic-English text. Published weights remain accessible after accepting the repository conditions.
Restricted access
A distinct model architecture
The card specifies a decoder-only transformer with multi-head attention, RoPE and Squared-ReLU. It is a separate pretraining effort, not a Llama fine-tune.Jais 2 8B official model card
Keep existing deployments reproducible
Practical guidance. The smaller Jais 2 release is useful when reproducing a bilingual deployment built around an 8,192-token window. Keep its tokenizer and prompt template with the weights. Switching only the model name can change Arabic token use and message boundaries.
Specifications & access
| Detail | Value and conditions |
|---|---|
| Status | Restricted access |
| Access | Downloadable |
| Model identifiers | Jais-2-8B-Chat |
| Context window | 8,192 tokens Context length in the developer's technical specifications Jais 2 8B official model card |
| License | Apache 2.0; Hugging Face acceptance gateJais 2 8B official model card |
| Vocabulary | 150,272 entriesJais 2 8B official model card |
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