Using Jais 13B on IBM watsonx

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IBM watsonx exposes Jais 13B through model ID jais-13b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at IBM watsonx and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the IBM watsonx SDK or REST API to call jais-13b — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.80/1M input, $1.80/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

See IBM watsonx documentation for integration details.

Pricing on IBM watsonx

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$1.80
Output tokens$1.80

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Jais 13B

Jais 13B is an advanced, open-source bilingual large language model developed by Inception, MBZUAI, and Cerebras Systems, designed for Arabic and English language processing. It employs a transformer-based decoder-only architecture similar to GPT-3 and features 13 billion parameters. The model incorporates enhancements like SwiGLU non-linearity and ALiBi position embeddings to improve precision and context handling. Trained on a substantial dataset of 395 billion tokens—72 billion in Arabic and 279 billion in English/code—using the Condor Galaxy 1 supercomputer, Jais 13B outperforms other Arabic LLMs on benchmarks.

Model Specs

Released2023-10-13
Parameters13B
Context2k
ArchitectureDecoder Only

Provider

IBM watsonx

IBM

Armonk, New York, United States