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
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The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi has launched Falcon 3, a new series of open-source large language models. Falcon 3 models range in size from 1B to 10B parameters and have been trained on 14 trillion tokens. Falcon 3 achieved the top spot on Hugging Face's LLM leaderboard for models under 13 billion parameters. Why it matters: This release democratizes access to high-performance AI by enabling efficient operation on laptops and light infrastructure, solidifying the UAE's position as a leader in open-source AI development.