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UAE’s Falcon 3 challenges open-source leaders amid surging demand for small AI models

The UAE-backed institute has released Falcon 3 in four different sizes with the goal of democratizing access to advanced AI capabilities.

The UAE government-backed Technology Innovation Institute(TII) has announced the launch of Falcon 3, a family of open-source small language models (SLMs) designed to run efficiently on lightweight, single GPU-based infrastructures. The development comes at a time when the demand for SLMs, with fewer parameters and simpler designs than LLMs, is rapidly growing due to their efficiency, affordability, and ability to be deployed on devices with limited resources. With their ability to handle specific, domain-focused tasks with fast processing times, the models can power various applications at the edge and in privacy-sensitive environments, including customer service chatbots, personalized recommender systems, data analysis, fraud detection, healthcare diagnostics, supply chain optimization and education.

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