UAE AI companies
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
The applied-research pillar of Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), with dedicated centres for AI, quantum, robotics and cryptography.
Overview
TII is the developer of the open-source Falcon family of large language models, one of the most widely used open model families to come out of the Gulf.
Products
- Falcon (40B) - launched March 2023
- Falcon 180B - a 180-billion-parameter model trained on 3.5 trillion tokens
- Falcon 2 (11B), including a vision-language variant
- Falcon 3 - built to run on light infrastructure, including laptops
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- Falcon-H1 Arabic - a hybrid Mamba-Transformer Arabic model, announced January 2026
Government and ownership ties
- Also listed in Nakoda's government & innovation-bodies directory
TII is both a company-shaped AI research institute and a government-adjacent body under ATRC - see its own entry in the government directory for the jurisdictional view.
Key facts
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