Arabic open models, creative tooling and a new US AI task force

Jais 3 releases six open Arabic-native models

The Institute of Foundation Models at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Inception42 released Jais 3, a family of six open language models for Arabic, plus a speech-recognition model. The language models range from 900 million to 375 billion parameters and are built on the group’s K2 Horizon base family; the release includes model checkpoints, training recipes, evaluation code and the Arabic benchmarks used by the developers.

The organizations say the models are intended to work across Modern Standard Arabic, regional dialects and Arabizi, while also handling tool use, document editing and web search. Their published comparisons show gains on the organizations’ own Arabic and agent evaluations, including a 79.6 average score for a seven-billion-parameter Jais model versus 56.4 for its K2 Horizon base. Those are developer-reported results, not an independent evaluation, but the open release gives outside researchers a way to test the claims and inspect the training artifacts.

Adobe and NVIDIA extend their creative-AI collaboration

Adobe and NVIDIA said they are expanding a partnership around AI-powered creation, production and personalization across Photoshop, Premiere, Substance 3D, Frame.io and Adobe Brand Concierge. NVIDIA says Adobe is bringing its RTX Spark superchip to selected agentic creative applications, and that the optimization can deliver up to twice the speed for some AI processing, editing, color and effects work.

The announcement also says Brand Concierge is being optimized for NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models, while NVIDIA plans to use the Adobe product for contextual customer interactions on NVIDIA.com. The performance figure is the companies’ claim and does not establish comparable gains across all hardware, features or creative workloads. Still, the announcement is another example of AI infrastructure partnerships moving from model access toward task-specific desktop and enterprise software integration.

White House AI task force begins its formal work

The White House’s new Super Intelligence Task Force held its first full committee meeting, according to Reuters, with Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton leading a group that includes officials from the FTC, Defense Department and Office of Personnel Management. Reuters reported before the meeting that the administration expected a charter defining the group’s goals and responsibilities.

Semafor later reported that the task force adopted a charter and asked the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology for a report on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, biosecurity and dual-use applications, and model control and accountability. The reported 120-day timetable and the eventual charter language matter more than the task force’s name: the early work describes an advisory and coordination process, not new binding AI rules. Its recommendations, scope and any follow-through remain to be seen.