Inception42
Category: Foundation Models / LLMs
G42's sovereign agentic AI company, building Arabic-native foundation models (Jais, Seraj) and agentic AI products for governments and enterprises. Inception42 was founded in 2018. The company is led by Ashish Ipe Koshy. Based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Team size: 101-500. Latest round: Undisclosed. Key investors include G42 (parent company).
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Team size
- 101-500
Value proposition
Turns G42's sovereign compute, data and research into deployable agentic AI products for governments and enterprises. Data residency, agent governance and auditability are built in. Strong Arabic-language capability is a core feature.
Products and solutions
Jais 3 open Arabic LLM family (6 models, 0.9B-375B params, 512K context, with MBZUAI IFM), Jais Speech (Arabic ASR across dialects of 19 countries, with code-switching), Seraj (Arabic enterprise LLM built on GPT-4.1 with Microsoft), Catalyst (agentic AI platform), Insight (AI for executive decision-making)
Unique value
Sovereign, Arabic-native agentic AI that the company says matches frontier capability. It is positioned as the 'intelligence layer' of the G42 ecosystem on top of Core42 sovereign cloud.
Target customer
UAE and international government entities, large enterprises and regulated sectors (government, legal, education, financial services)
Industries served
Government / Public Sector, Financial Services, Legal, Education, Healthcare, Energy, Media, Climate
Technology advantage
The company brings in-house Arabic LLM expertise from the Jais lineage, developed with MBZUAI and Cerebras. It has access to G42/Core42 sovereign compute and the UAE government relationships of its parent G42. Its Arabic benchmark suite (24 benchmarks) is public, and it publishes open weights on Hugging Face.
How they differentiate
Inception42 releases Arabic-native open models in many sizes plus speech recognition, and it embeds agentic products directly in UAE government and enterprise workflows. Its sovereign deployment model is backed by the G42 ecosystem.
Main competitors
HUMAIN (Saudi Arabia), Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Falcon / Falcon-Emirati, global frontier model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)
Key partnerships
MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models (Jais 3), Cerebras Systems, Microsoft (Seraj, agentic AI collaboration), Bain & Company (global AI partnership), NXT Holding (MoU), Solutions+, Core42 (G42 sovereign cloud)
Notable customers
Abu Dhabi Department of Government Enablement (DGE): Mawaheb national talent platform uses Inception’s Talent Enablement Platform
Major milestones
2018: Founded as Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) within G42. 2023: Launched the original Jais Arabic LLM, merged with G42 Cloud and Injazat into Core42, later relaunched as Inception. June 2025: Ashish Koshy appointed CEO. 2025: Partnership with Bain & Company. July 2026: Rebranded to Inception42 and launched Seraj with Microsoft. Oct 2026: Launched Insight. Oct 2026: Launched Jais 3 (up to 375B params) and Jais Speech with MBZUAI IFM.
Market positioning
Leading UAE sovereign enterprise AI and Arabic LLM provider; G42's applied/agentic AI arm
Geographic focus
UAE, GCC and the broader Arab world
About Ashish Ipe Koshy
Ex-M42 Group Chief Operating Officer; Ex-G42 Healthcare Founder & CEO (2017-2022). 20+ years leading large-scale AI and technology initiatives; appointed CEO of Inception (G42) in June 2025.
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Official website: https://inception42.ai