Inception

What is Inception?

Inception is an Abu Dhabi AI company within the G42 group that builds language models for underserved languages. It is known for the Jais family of Arabic models. The inceptionai.ai domain now redirects to inception42.ai, which was not readable during review, so details come from third-party coverage.

Key capabilities of Inception

• Jais Arabic models: A family of 20 open-source Arabic-centric LLMs from 590 million to 70 billion parameters
• Jais 2: Next-generation open-weight Arabic LLM released with Cerebras and MBZUAI
• Nanda for Hindi: Hindi-English model, now at 87 billion parameters
• Sherkala for Kazakh: 8-billion-parameter model trained on 45 billion words
• Open weights: Models published on Hugging Face under the inception42 organization
• Sovereign agentic AI: Press describes work on agentic AI for UAE enterprise

How Inception works

Inception trains models with partners: MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models and Cerebras for compute. The models are released as open weights, so developers download them from Hugging Face and run or fine-tune them themselves.

Who uses Inception?

Developers, researchers and organizations that need strong Arabic, Hindi or Kazakh language models, including government and enterprise users in the UAE.

Inception pricing

The model weights are released as open source, so they can be downloaded without a license fee. Pricing for any hosted or enterprise service was not stated in the sources reviewed.

Inception alternatives

Alternatives include Falcon LLM from TII, Meta's Llama models for general multilingual use, and Alibaba's Qwen family.