Falcon LLM

What it does

Falcon LLM is a family of open generative AI models from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi. The site presents Falcon-H1, Falcon Arabic, Falcon Perception, Falcon-Emirati, Falcon-ASR and Falcon-OCR-Arabic, covering text, vision, speech and document reading. It is aimed at developers and researchers building multilingual and multimodal applications.

Falcon LLM is a model family from Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute. The homepage lists Falcon-H1, Falcon Arabic, Falcon Perception, Falcon-Emirati, Falcon-ASR and Falcon-OCR-Arabic, so the range covers text, vision, speech and document reading. Falcon-Emirati is described as a 7-billion-parameter model built for Emirati vocabulary, expressions and cultural context. Falcon-ASR is presented as delivering Emirati and Arabic speech transcription, and Falcon-OCR-Arabic as extracting text from images with a lightweight model. The site also links to datasets and research pages. The homepage says the latest iteration of TII's open-source large language model series aims to democratize access to AI. That supports an open-source pricing model, but it does not confirm a free plan, an API, or whether an account is needed. No pricing page was found, so cost and access terms remain unknown. The homepage gives summaries and benchmark claims rather than full technical detail, so check each model page for license terms and hardware needs.