ABU DHABI'S TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION INSTITUTE NEW AI MODEL OUTPERFORMS BIG TECH

KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 (Bernama) -- The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global scientific research centre and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has launched a second iteration of its renowned large language model (LLM) – Falcon 2.

Within this series, it has unveiled two groundbreaking versions, namely Falcon 2 11B, a more efficient and accessible LLM trained on 5.5 trillion tokens with 11 billion parameters; and Falcon 2 11B VLM, distinguished by its vision-to-language model (VLM) capabilities, which enable seamless conversion of visual inputs into textual outputs.

While both models are multilingual, notably, Falcon 2 11B VLM stands out as TII's first multimodal model, and the only one currently in the top tier market that has this image-to-text conversion capability, marking a significant advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.

According to a statement, Falcon 2 11B and 11B VLM are both open-source, empowering developers worldwide with unrestricted access, whereby in the near future, there are plans to broaden the Falcon 2 next-generation models, introducing a range of sizes.

These models will be further enhanced with advanced machine learning capabilities like 'Mixture of Experts' (MoE), aimed at pushing their performance to even more sophisticated levels.

All of TII’s AI models released to date have consistently ranked in the top tier globally, as the most powerful open-source LLMs, in which the new scaled-down and versatile Falcon 2 11B models are set to give TII greater market adoption in the ever-evolving world of generative AI.

Falcon 2 11B models, equipped with multilingual capabilities, seamlessly tackle tasks in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and various other languages, enriching their versatility and magnifying their effectiveness across diverse scenarios.

Meanwhile, Falcon 2 11B VLM has the capability to identify and interpret images and visuals from the environment, providing a wide range of applications across industries such as healthcare, finance, e-commerce, education, and legal sectors.

-- BERNAMA