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Armand Ruiz
VP of Product - AI Platform @IBM
Armand Ruiz is the Director of AI Engineering at IBM, overseeing the watsonx team consisting of 1,000+ AI Engineers. With over 12 years of experience in AI, he focuses on developing cutting-edge Generative AI solutions and democratizing practical AI skills. Previously, Armand managed IBM's Data Science and AI Elite, leading complex AI implementations for numerous clients. He has also held key roles in product management for IBM Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning, widely used AI platforms. Armand holds a Master of Science in Telecommunications from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and is multilingual, fluent in Spanish, Catalan, French, and English.
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New Model in IBM watsonx! --> We are excited to announce that an Arabic-language foundation model is now available to all our users and customers
The jais-13b-chat foundation model provided by Inception, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, and Cerebras Systems is available for our customers..
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Jais-13b-chat is a 13 billion parameter bilingual large language model for Arabic and English, based on GPT-3 architecture with SwiGLU non-linearity and ALiBi position embeddings, designed for enhanced context handling and precision in longer sequences.
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The model is fine-tuned using a dataset of 4 million Arabic and 6 million English prompt-response pairs, incorporating safety features and extra guardrails through safety-oriented instructions and prompts.
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It utilizes the largest curated dataset of Arabic and English instruction tuning, allowing for multi-turn conversations across diverse topics, especially relevant to the Arab world.
Our strategy at IBM is Multi-Model and Multi-Lingual.
We offer a rich and curated model library that gives you the choice and flexibility to choose the model that best fits your business needs, regional interests, and risk profiles from a library of proprietary, open-source, and third-party models.
