Middle East AI

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GCC AI Models

Large language models and AI systems built by institutions across the Gulf Cooperation Council. Updated as new models are released.

Falcon

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ TII Β· UAE

Open-source large language model family from the Technology Innovation Institute (Abu Dhabi). Falcon was the first Arabic-organization model to top the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. The Falcon 3 series (2024) supports Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Type: LLM Sizes: 7B, 40B, 180B, Falcon 2 (11B), Falcon 3 (1B–10B)

Jais

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ MBZUAI / Inception Β· UAE

Bilingual Arabic-English LLM developed jointly by MBZUAI, Inception, and Core42. Trained on a large Arabic-English corpus with a custom tokenizer optimized for Arabic morphology. Jais-30B achieved state-of-the-art results on Arabic NLP benchmarks at release.

Type: Arabic LLM Sizes: 13B, 30B

AceGPT

πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ KAUST Β· Saudi Arabia

Arabicized LLM from KAUST, built by fine-tuning Llama 2 on Arabic instruction data. Introduces an Arabic chat format aligned to regional preferences and cultural context. Evaluated on MMLU-AR, AlGhafa, and custom Arabic benchmarks.

Type: Arabic LLM Sizes: 7B, 13B

ALLaM

πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ SDAIA / IBM Β· Saudi Arabia

Arabic large language model developed by SDAIA in collaboration with IBM Research. Designed to support Saudi Vision 2030 digital transformation initiatives. ALLaM is trained on curated Arabic datasets reflecting Gulf Arabic dialect and Modern Standard Arabic.

Type: Arabic LLM Sizes: 7B
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