Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has launched Falcon 40B, the UAE’s first large-scale open-source, 40-billion-parameter AI model. The model has soared to the top spot on Hugging Face’s latest Open Large Language Model (LLM) Leaderboard, beating back established models such as LLaMA from Meta, StableLM from Stability AI, and RedPajama from Together. Hugging Face is considered the world’s definitive independent verifier of AI models. The index utilizes four key benchmarks from the Eleuther AI Language Model Evaluation Harness, a consolidated framework that assesses generative language models. 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 utilization. TII has already embarked work on its next version of Falcon – the 180B AI model. 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. Hugging Faces 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. Falcon 40B confirms the model’s prowess in making AI more transparent, inclusive, and accessible for the greater good of humanity. To learn more about the current open sourced Falcon 40B AI model, please visit: FalconLLM.TII.ae.
