Technology Innovation Institute Unveils Falcon 180B Open LLM

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (Bernama) -- The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched Falcon 180B, an advanced iteration of its flagship large language model (LLM), overcoming the limitations of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

According to TII in a statement, the launch strengthens the UAE's dominance in AI, offering Falcon 180B as an open-access model for research and commercial purposes.

Following the success of Falcon 40B, an open source AI model that swiftly ascended to the top of the Hugging Face Leaderboard for LLMs in May 2023, TII, the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) continues to lead the charge in generative AI.

Falcon 40B marked one of the first instances of open source models for both researchers and commercial users, and it was considered a pioneering leap in the field.

TII Executive Director and Acting Chief Researcher of the AI Cross-Center Unit, Dr Ebtesam Almazrouei said the launch of Falcon 180B exemplified the company’s dedication to advancing the frontiers of AI.

“Falcon 180B heralds a new era of generative AI, where the potential of scientific advancement is made available through open access to fuel the innovations of tomorrow,” he said.

With a staggering 180 billion parameters and trained on 3.5 trillion tokens, Falcon 180B soars to the top of the Hugging Face Leaderboard for pretrained LLMs, outperforms notable competitors like Meta’s LLaMA 2 in various benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, proficiency and knowledge tests.

This significant upgrade is poised to become the premier model for various domains, from chatbots to code generation, and beyond, with over 12 million developers adopting and deploying the first release of Falcon.

Falcon 180B is compatible with some of the major languages such as English, German, Spanish and French, with limited capabilities in Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Czech and Swedish.

-- BERNAMA