The world’s first bilingual LLM dedicated to climate intelligence

Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on massive amounts of text data to learn patterns, grammar, context, and semantics of language.

These models use techniques from the field of natural language processing (NLP) to process and generate text in a way that can simulate human-like conversation and understanding.

LLMs hold the potential to significantly impact society and industries by bridging the gap between humans and machines.

Through cutting-edge research and partnerships, MBZUAI is pioneering LLMs that are efficient, effective, and accurate. In addition, our faculty are working on foundation models for biology and climate change, over different data modalities.

AI luminaries

Eric Xing

MBZUAI President and University Professor

As a world-leading computer scientist, Xing excels in theory, application, and system at the same time. His major contributions lie in the foundational work of statistical machine learning methodology, including pioneering work in distance metric learning; statistical models and analyses of networks; methods for learning and analyzing graphical models; and new systems, theories, and algorithms for distributed machine learning.

As professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, he was founding director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He has served as a visiting associate professor at Stanford University, and as a visiting research professor at Facebook Inc. Xing is also the Founder, Chairman, and former Chief Scientist and CEO of Petuum Inc.

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  • Timothy Baldwin

    Acting Provost, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Natural Language Processing
  • Le Song

    Professor of Machine Learning
  • Preslav Nakov

    Department Chair of Natural Language Processing and Professor of Natural Language Processing
  • Pengtao Xie

    Adjunct Assistant Professor of Machine Learning
  • Eric Moulines

    Adjunct Professor of Machine Learning
  • Zhiting Hu 

    Assistant Professor in the Halicioglu Data Science Institute at University California San Diego

Products

From language translation to content generation, our products showcase the true potential of these powerful models. Try our range of cutting-edge LLM products and harness the power of language to enhance your productivity and creativity.

JAIS CLIMATE

Jais Climate is the world’s first bilingual large language model dedicated to climate and sustainability. Developed through a partnership between MBZUAI and Core42, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi-based technology holding group G42, it caters to government decision-makers, business leaders, students, and families, making climate data accessible to more than 274 million Arabic and 1.4 billion English speakers worldwide. Jais Climate is fine-tuned with 1.4 million climate-related instructions to provide detailed information about the UAE’s environmental policies, as well as the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28 UAE.

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JAIS

Jais is the highest quality open-source Arabic large language model in the world. Homegrown in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, Jais caters for over 400-million Arabic speaking individuals. Jais outperforms existing Arabic models by a sizable margin and is very competitive with English models of similar size, despite being trained on significantly less English data. Jais was developed by Inception, a G42 company, in partnership with Cerebras and MBZUAI. MBZUAI led the training and the evaluation of the model, which played an instrumental role in enhancing the model's capabilities and benchmarking it against the existing alternatives.

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Vicuna

Vicuna is an open-source chatbot that not only delivers exceptional performance but also comes at a significantly reduced environmental footprint. With a training cost of just $300 USD and a tiny energy consumption compared to its counterparts, Vicuna exemplifies the power of innovation in creating sustainable solutions. The model is highly competitive with ChatGPT and Google’s Bard scoring around 90% on subjective language assessments and making it the strongest known, publicly available chatbot alternative. Vicuna is the outcome of a global collaboration between researchers from MBZUAI, UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, and UC San Diego who came together to address the unsustainable costs associated with chatbots.

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Vacancies

Join our vast intellectual community, where you’ll be an apprentice to some of the most revered minds in the AI sphere, including luminaries such as Eric Xing, Tim Baldwin, and Preslav Nakov. This is your chance to draw inspiration, refine your skills, and leave an indelible mark on the world of AI. Be part of a groundbreaking AI revolution and choose to work with us from one of three locations in Paris, France; Silicon Valley, California; or Abu Dhabi, UAE. Join us in redefining AI's potential.

Locations

This is a unique opportunity for you to mold your experience according to your preferences. When you become part of this transformative initiative, you gain the freedom to choose your base from three of the world’s most iconic locations – Paris, Abu Dhabi, or Silicon Valley*. Your work environment should be as dynamic as your ideas, and this flexibility ensures just that.

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National strategic computing resources

When you become part of our National Initiative, you’re not merely joining a team – you’re stepping into a realm of unparalleled access to immense computational power, such as NVIDIA H100s and Cerebras wafer-scale hardware, which the UAE government has dedicated to driving the future of AI towards next-generation capabilities.

Toward super intelligence – AGI

Embark on the cutting edge of the AI revolution by enrolling in our National Initiative for Super Intelligence, a step that establishes the foundation for transformative changes in AGI.

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This pioneering initiative empowers machines to understand and generate human language on an unprecedented scale.

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As a prospective participant, you’re not just pursuing a job, you’re embracing the mantle of an innovator – redefining how technology interacts with language, imagery, videos, audio, biomedical data, and beyond.

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Your journey encompasses the evolution of AGI, where your contributions will shape the course of AI’s capabilities.

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Discover the evolving landscape of Generative AI with the 'The RenAIssance: Navigating the New Wave of Generative AI' report, delivered by the MBZUAI Strategy Team.

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