ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, May 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today strengthened its growing international influence in the field of artificial intelligence by announcing that “Falcon 40B,” the UAE’s first large-scale AI model, is now open source for research and commercial use. This pioneering move demonstrates Abu Dhabi’s commitment to fostering collaboration across sectors and driving advancements in generative AI.
Falcon, a foundational large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters, trained on one trillion tokens, grants unprecedented access to researchers and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovators alike. TII is providing access to the model’s weights as a more comprehensive open-source package, with the aim of enabling access to powerful LLM capabilities, promoting transparency and accountability, and supporting innovation and research in the field.