Jais-2-8B-Chat: benchmark results

G42 Inception, Cerebras and MBZUAI's Jais 2 series chat model at 8B parameters, released under an Apache 2.0 license. Provider: Inception (G42), Cerebras & MBZUAI. Released 2025-12-09. Access: Open.

Aggregate Rating 1493 ± 19, rank #802 of 1635 rated models, from 58 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
QIMMA - ArabicMMLU73.96Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice)93.9
QIMMA - PALMX78.98Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice)92.7
QIMMA - MizanQA61.33Normalized multiple-choice probability score (%)86.6
QIMMA - AraTrust87.55Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice)84.8
QIMMA - ArabCulture68.99Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice)84.1
QIMMA - Overall59.33Mean score across 14 benchmarks (%)78
ArabCulture-Dialogue - Dialect Steering20.8Dialect identity accuracy (%): share of continuations whose 72.7
ArabCulture-Dialogue - Dialect Steering Quality73Continuation quality (0-100): GPT-5 judge rating on 1-5 resc72.7
ArabCulture-Dialogue - MCQ with Country Context (Dialect)73.1Accuracy (%) selecting the one culturally appropriate contin72.7
QIMMA - MedAraBench41.25Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice)72
QIMMA - AraDiCE-Culture65.56Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice)69.5
QIMMA - FannOrFlop51.94F1 (%)69.5

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