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Inception (G42 company), also operating as Inception42

Sovereign, agentic AI for enterprises and governments, born from G42's Arabic-language AI research heritage.

SubsidiaryAbu Dhabi, UAE, Abu Dhabiinception42.ai
Prospect profileArabic LLMagentic AIsovereign AIG42 subsidiaryJais
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Overview

Inception is an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence company and subsidiary of G42, focused on building sovereign, agentic AI for enterprises and governments. It is best known for developing the Jais family of Arabic large language models (starting with the 13B-parameter Jais in 2023, later expanded to a family of open-source Jais models, and Jais 2 released in December 2025 with MBZUAI and Cerebras Systems). The company was rebranded from "Inception" to "Inception42" alongside a strategic push into agentic AI products for government and enterprise deployment at sovereign scale.
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Steady

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Details

Operating Status
Active
Company Type
Subsidiary
Headquarters
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Products & Services

Seraj

Arabic-focused enterprise LLM built on GPT-4.1 with Arabic mid-training, for government/enterprise document understanding, translation, RAG and workflow automation

JAIS Chat

Consumer chat app offering Arabic-language AI models (JAIS 30B, JAIS 70B, K2-Diamond-Chat) with speech-to-text/text-to-speech

Catalyst

Software platform for building and managing agentic AI systems, integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, underpinning the UAE federal government agentic AI rollout

(In)Government

Product suite embedding AI into government operations, covering procurement and human-capital pillars

(In)Procurement

Automates supplier registration, virtual purchasing assistants and smart RFP tools for government procurement

(In)ExecEdge

AI product for executives automating meeting workflows and surfacing real-time insights, integrated with Microsoft 365

(In)Genius

AI-powered insight generation and analysis system for business strategy research, validation and reporting

(In)Alpha

AI tool for institutional investors managing M&A activities

(In)Business Procurement / Process / Productivity / Customer Experience

Suite of enterprise AI-native products spanning procurement, process automation, workforce productivity and customer engagement

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Technology

Tech stack

OpenAI GPT-4.1 (base model for the Seraj Arabic LLM)Microsoft Azure / Azure Marketplace (product distribution)Microsoft 365 Copilot (integration for Catalyst agentic AI platform and (In)ExecEdge)

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PartnershipAnnounced

DGE and Inception Partnership for AI-Native Government

Department of Government Enablement (DGE) and Inception partnered to advance Abu Dhabi's goal of becoming the world's first AI-native government by 2027, launching the (In)Government product suite covering Procurement and Human Capital pillars, expected to enable roughly 35 new AI use cases.

Feb 10, 2026

PartnershipAnnounced

ADFD and Inception Strategic Cooperation Agreement

Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and Inception signed a strategic cooperation agreement to integrate AI into ADFD's operations, aiming to strengthen data-driven decision-making and performance monitoring; signed during the World Governments Summit.

Feb 4, 2026

Partnership / Product LaunchAnnounced

Inception42 and Microsoft Launch 'Seraj' Arabic AI Model

Inception42 and Microsoft jointly launched Seraj, an Arabic-focused enterprise AI model built on GPT-4.1 with targeted mid-training on curated Arabic datasets, aimed at government, legal, education, media and financial-services use cases; made available via Core42's Compass platform.

Aug 15, 2026

Product Launch / PartnershipCompleted

Inception Launches Seven AI-Native Products on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Inception made seven AI-native products — (In)ExecEdge, (In)Genius, (In)Alpha, (In)Business Procurement, (In)Business Process, (In)Business Productivity and (In)Business Customer Experience — available on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace, expanding global access to its enterprise AI portfolio.

Sep 17, 2025

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