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G42

Foundation Models

UAE-based AI company building sovereign AI infrastructure and models.

Subsidiary: Core42

Subsidiary: Presight

Subsidiary: Inception42

Subsidiary: M42

Subsidiary: Space42

Total funding$2.3B

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2018

HeadquartersAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Jais Model API Sold on its own

  Arabic-centric large language model family built by Inception, G42's AI subsidiary -- 20 open-source models from 590M to 70B parameters, including Jais 70B, trained on a large Arabic-and-English corpus and released for download rather than sold as a metered API.

Similar products 28

No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

How this list is ranked ↗

LCLG CorpPublic · $13.4BJais and K-EXAONE 2.0 both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAleph AlphaPrivate · $500M raisedJais and Pharia-1-LLM both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare0101.AIPrivateJais and Yi both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaichuanPrivate · $2.8BJais and Baichuan Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUpstagePrivate · $958.8MJais and Solar LLMs both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BJais and Cogito both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepSeekPrivate · $50BJais and DeepSeek API Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BJais and AI21 Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BJais and StepFun Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BJais and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TJais and Meta Model API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMoonshot AIPrivate · $35BJais and Kimi Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BJais and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TJais and Gemini API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BJais and FLUX API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).Shared product typeCompareSAStability AIPrivate · $495.9MJais and Stability AI Platform API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).Shared product typeCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BJais and MiniMax Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoherePrivate · $7BJais and Cohere Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BJais and Mistral AI Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedJais and Nous Portal both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private); ships AI agent, API service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BJais and Kling AI Developer API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BJais and Claude API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASarvam AIPrivate · $275M raisedJais and Sarvam AI Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BJais and Baidu Qianfan both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BJais and Z.ai Model API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)Jais and xAI API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BJais and SenseNova both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BJais and OpenAI API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

Press release · 28 Aug 2026

Microsoft's $1.5B investment (2024-04-16, G42's own press release) + Silver Lake's investment (2021-04-14, G42 also announced the deal but did not disclose the amount; the $800M figure is reported by The Wall Street Journal) = $2.3B. G42 does not disclose a valuation or a cumulative total, and other private placements (e.g. via MGX) may exist beyond these two disclosed rounds, so this is a floor, not a total.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field.

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