Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) made its large language model (LLM), Falcon 180B, available for deployment on Amazon's SageMaker JumpStart platform, the Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced in a press release.

Falcon 180B is the largest openly available language model with 180 billion parameters, backed by an exhaustive 3.5-trillion-token dataset. It is a large-scale of TII’s previous Falcon 40B model, employing sophisticated technologies such as multi-query attention for enhanced scalability.

Ebtesam Almazrouei, the Executive Director and Acting Chief AI Researcher of AI Cross Center Unit and Project Lead for LLM Projects at TII, stated: “By offering Falcon 180B as an open-access tool, we're laying the groundwork for organizations to harness its unparalleled functionalities and pave the way for future progress and transformative solutions in AI.”

“We are elated to provide Falcon180B platform that we believe will catalyze groundbreaking advancements in both academic research and industry solutions," Almazrouei elaborated.

The Managing Director of Public Sector Middle East and Africa at AWS, Wojciech Bajda, stated: “Today's milestone of open Falcon 180B's integration into Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is not just a triumph for TII but also a proud moment for technological innovation in the Middle East.”

Furthermore, TII rolled out an early chat-specialized version, Falcon 180B-Chat, which has been custom-tailored to excel in conversational applications.

The statement pointed out that the use of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for data storage and checkpoint management ensures both workload reliability and ease of operations.

TII is the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC).

AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.