@inproceedings{anwar-etal-2026-jais,
    title = "Jais 2: A Family of {A}rabic-Centric Open Large Language Models",
    author = "Anwar, Mohamed  and
      Freihat, Abed Alhakim  and
      Ibrahim, George  and
      Awad, Mostafa  and
      Sadallah, Abdelrahman  and
      Gosal, Gurpreet  and
      Ramakrishnan, Gokulakrishnan  and
      Chandran, Sarath  and
      Mishra, Biswajit  and
      Joshi, Rituraj  and
      Frikha, Ahmed  and
      Goffinet, Etienne  and
      Maiti, Abhishek  and
      El Filali, Ali  and
      AlBarri, Sarah  and
      Ghosh, Samujjwal  and
      Pal, Rahul  and
      Mullah, Parvez  and
      Shukla, Awantika  and
      Siddiki, Sajid  and
      Kamboj, Samta  and
      Pandit, Onkar  and
      Sahu, Sunil Kumar  and
      Elbadawy, AbdelRahman  and
      Mohamed, Amr  and
      Chamma, Ahmad  and
      Dufraisse, Evan  and
      Bounhar, Abdelaziz  and
      Bouch, Dani  and
      Abdine, Hadi  and
      Shang, Guokan  and
      Koto, Fajri  and
      Wang, Yuxia  and
      Xie, Zhuohan  and
      Mekky, Ali  and
      Elbadry, Rania  and
      Ahmad, Sarfraz  and
      Ahsan, Momina  and
      El Herraoui, Omar  and
      Orel, Daniil  and
      Iqbal, Hasan  and
      Elzeky, Kareem  and
      Abassy, Mervat  and
      Elozeiri, Kareem  and
      Eletter, Saadeldine  and
      Atif, Farah  and
      Mukhituly, Nurdaulet  and
      Li, Haonan  and
      Han, Xudong  and
      Singh, Aaryamonvikram  and
      Quraishi, Zainul Abedien Ahmed  and
      Sengupta, Neha  and
      Murray, Larry  and
      Sheinin, Avraham  and
      Hestness, Joel  and
      Vassilieva, Natalia  and
      Ren, Hector Xuguang  and
      Liu, Zhengzhong  and
      Vazirgiannis, Michalis  and
      Nakov, Preslav",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.657/",
    pages = "15090--15151",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}