TII (Falcon)
Abu Dhabi research lab that pioneered permissively-licensed frontier open-source models.
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About TII (Falcon)
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi made history by releasing Falcon 40B under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 licence — the first frontier-scale model with true commercial freedom. The Falcon series continued with Falcon 180B (the largest openly available dense model at its release), Falcon 2 with native vision support, and Falcon-Mamba 7B which introduced Mamba state-space architecture to mainstream open-source AI.
Key highlights
First lab to release a frontier-scale model (40B) under Apache 2.0 licence
Falcon 180B was the largest publicly available dense model at its release
Falcon-Mamba 7B introduces Mamba SSM with linear inference scaling to 128K
Falcon 2 adds vision-language capability with full commercial use rights
All models freely available on Hugging Face with no usage restrictions
Models
4 models tracked
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Falcon 180B
2023
The largest dense model ever released under a fully permissive open-source licence at time of release. 180B parameters trained on 3.5 trillion tokens with full commercial rights.
- Largest permissive open model at launch
- Apache 2.0 licence
- High quality ceiling
- Full commercial freedom
tiiuae/falcon-180B-chatFalcon 2 11B
2024
The second generation Falcon model with native vision-language capability. Handles image understanding and VQA tasks with full commercial-use permissions.
- Vision-language capability
- 8K context
- Apache 2.0
- Efficient 11B size
tiiuae/falcon-11BFalcon-Mamba 7B
2024
A pure Mamba state-space model that processes 128K tokens with linear (not quadratic) inference cost. Ideal for very long sequences where attention overhead becomes prohibitive.
- Pure Mamba SSM architecture
- Linear inference cost
- 128K context
- No attention overhead
tiiuae/falcon-mamba-7b-instructFalcon 40B
2023
The original model that proved permissive frontier models were possible. Falcon 40B under Apache 2.0 was a watershed moment for the open-source AI ecosystem.
- Apache 2.0 original pioneer
- Proven quality
- Wide inference support
- Historical significance
tiiuae/falcon-40b-instructUse Cases
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