Jamba-Instruct is Now Available on Microsoft’s Azure AI

June 21, 2024

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We are thrilled to announce today that our latest and most advanced Foundation Model, Jamba-Instruct, is now available within Azure AI’s Models-as-a-Service, marking a new partnership between AI21 and Microsoft—and the first time this groundbreaking new model is widely available through a cloud partner. 

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In offering Jamba-Instruct as part of Azure AI’s Models as a Service (MaaS) offering, both AI21 and Microsoft affirm their commitment to equipping enterprise builders with the most cutting-edge and top-performing language models needed to power Generative AI applications at scale.

Jamba-Instruct, AI21’s groundbreaking Foundation Model

Released earlier this month, Jamba-Instruct is AI21’s most recent—and most powerful to date—Foundation Model. As the world’s first production-grade SSM-Transformer model, Jamba-Instruct leverages its hybrid architecture to achieve best-in-class performance, quality, and cost efficiency. 

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Jamba-Instruct stands out for its:

• Impressive context window length: Offering a 70K context window, Jamba-Instruct is built to effectively handle long context instances. From streamlining document comprehension to enabling more robust and sophisticated RAG Engine mechanisms, Jamba-Instruct’s context window opens up new opportunities for powerful GenAI workflows. 

• Cost-efficient processing: Due to its novel hybrid architecture, Jamba-Instruct handles lengthy context on a smaller cloud footprint than ever before, avoiding driving up compute costs.
  
  
• Best value per cost: Surpassing or rivaling competitors across common quality benchmarks, Jamba-Instruct’s highly competitive pricing makes it the model of choice for enterprises looking to build and scale GenAI applications while optimizing for cost. Simply put, Jamba-Instruct delivers the best value per cost among its size class.

Accelerating time to production

By using Jamba-Instruct on Azure AI's secure platform, organizations can swiftly and securely harness the full potential of GenAI technology.

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As an instruction-tuned model, Jamba-Instruct comes with the safety guardrails, chat capabilities, and complex command comprehension needed to make it ready for immediate use by enterprises. 

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And with Azure AI's commitment to data security and privacy and pay-as-you-go inference APIs, developers can focus on building, knowing that their enterprise data remains within the secure bounds of the Azure cloud and without needing to dedicate additional time to maintaining complex infrastructure.

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Start building with Jamba-Instruct on Azure AI. And read more in Microsoft's Tech Community Blog.