UAE’S FALCON 40B SOARS TOP SPOT IN HUGGING FACE OPEN LLM LEADERBOARD

KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 (Bernama) -- Technology Innovation Institute (TII) announced that Falcon 40B, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first large-scale open-source, 40-billion-parameter artificial intelligence (AI) model soared to the top spot on Hugging Face’s latest Open Large Language Model (LLM) Leaderboard.

Hugging Face, an American company seeking to democratise AI through open-source and open science, is considered the world’s definitive independent verifier of AI models.

According to TII in a statement, Falcon 40B managed to beat back established models such as LLaMA from Meta (including its 65B model), StableLM from Stability AI, and RedPajama from Together to achieve the coveted ranking.

Hugging Face’s Open LLM Leaderboard is an objective evaluation tool open to the AI community that tracks, ranks and evaluates LLMs and chatbots as they are launched.

Trained on one trillion tokens, Falcon 40B marks a significant turning point for the UAE in its journey towards AI leadership, enabling widespread access to the model's weights for both research and commercial utilisation.

The new ranking confirms the model’s prowess in making AI more transparent, inclusive and accessible for the greater good of humanity.

With this latest development, TII has managed to secure the UAE a seat at the table when it comes to generative AI models, allowing it to join an exclusive list of countries that are working to drive AI innovation and collaboration.

-- BERNAMA