📋About Technology Innovation Institute
Updated August 26, 2026Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a research center based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, operating under the Advanced Technology Research Council. Founded in 2020, TII conducts cutting-edge research across multiple technology domains including AI, quantum computing, cryptography, and autonomous systems.
TII is best known in the AI world for developing the Falcon family of large language models, which were among the first high-quality open-source LLMs and briefly topped the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Falcon models (7B, 40B, 180B parameters) were released under permissive licenses and trained on the RefinedWeb dataset, demonstrating that smaller organizations could produce competitive foundation models. TII continues to develop AI research across NLP, computer vision, and robotics.
TII represents the UAE's national investment in becoming a global AI research hub. The institute's open-source approach to AI model development (in contrast to the proprietary strategies of most well-funded labs) has earned it credibility in the global research community, and its Falcon models remain widely used, particularly in applications requiring Arabic language capabilities.
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TII's open-source model family (1B-10B params, 14T tokens). Falcon3-10B leads Hugging Face for models under 13B. Includes multimodal variants, Falcon Arabic, and Falcon-Edge (1-bit) for ultra-low-power deployment.
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