[_the_special_]

As an Arab person myself (and not getting into the Palestine occupation debate). It's sad that a non-Arab speaking nation is creating LLMs to better understand Arabic but I am not aware of any Arab nation doing the same effort.

[uludag]

I would say that it's sad that LLMs are being used for mass surveillance, and such applications are things no government should be proud of deploying.

And it's things like this that are ripe to come to other countries. An interesting book that goes into this concept is "The Palestine Laboratory." Sad times indeed.

[wdrw]

https://cerebras.ai/press-release/meet-jais-the-worlds-most-...

[cess11]

Why would LLM training allow arabic native speakers to "better understand Arabic"?

This isn't a tool to better understand arabic in some innocent sense, it's a compensation for israelis refusing to learn arabic and having trouble gathering intelligence from linguistic sources. When you're actively involved in the genocide of a people you'll also have problems finding informants among them, it's much easier under a less intense apartheid regime.