FALCON 3: UAE'S TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INSTITUTE LAUNCHES WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SMALL AI MODELS THAT CAN ALSO BE RUN ON LIGHT INFRASTRUCTURES, INCLUDING LAPTOPS

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Dec 18 (Bernama) -- The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global applied research center under Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has unveiled Falcon 3, the latest iteration of its open-source large language model (LLM) series. This groundbreaking release sets new performance standards for small LLMs and democratizes access to advanced artificial intelligence by enabling the model to operate efficiently on light infrastructures, including laptops. Falcon 3 introduces superior reasoning and enhanced fine-tuning capabilities, making it a more powerful and usable AI model.

Falcon 3 is designed to democratize access to high-performance AI, offering models that are both powerful and efficient. Trained on 14 trillion tokens—more than double its predecessor's 5.5 trillion—Falcon 3 demonstrates superior performance across various benchmarks. Notably, it ranks among the top models globally that can operate on a single GPU. Upon its release, Falcon 3 achieved the number one position on Hugging Face's global third-party LLM leaderboard, surpassing other open-source models of similar size, including Meta's Llama variants. In particular, the Falcon 3-10B model leads its category, outperforming all models under 13 billion parameters.