Falcon
by Technology Innovation Institute
At a glance
Family of open-weight large language models developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII).
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- Licence
- TII Falcon License
- Category
- Open Models
- Business model
- Open (open weights/source)
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2023-05
Overview
Falcon is a family of open-weight large language models developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi. The line spans the original Falcon 7B/40B/180B releases through newer Falcon 2, Falcon 3, and Falcon-H1 hybrid models, released under permissive Apache-based licenses. The models are free to download and use, including commercially.
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Key features
- Open-weight models from small to 180B parameters
- Permissive Apache-based licensing for commercial use
- Newer generations with multilingual and vision variants
- Falcon-H1 hybrid attention/state-space architecture
Use cases
- Self-hosted chatbots and text generation
- Research on large-scale open models
- Fine-tuning for domain-specific applications
Pricing
Falcon models are free to download and use commercially under permissive TII licenses; costs come only from the compute used to run them.
Record details
Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.
Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-09-10
- Model family
- Falcon
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- AE
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/falcon/
Selection profile
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- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself
Derived from the record: category "open-models".
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- Model weights
Derived from record tag matching /^open-weights$/.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Not recorded
No platform support is stated in the record.
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- Local machine
Open-weight models are run by the user, not served by the vendor.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Partly
Local execution implies the model can run without a network once downloaded, but the vendor does not state this in the record.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Not recorded
The record does not state whether a public API exists.
Suggest a correction - Licence
- TII Falcon License
Mirrors the licence already recorded on the product record; not re-verified against the licence text by this migration.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
No licence terms recorded, so commercial use cannot be asserted.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
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- Open source Free Free allowance: Yes Subscription required: No
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
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- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Our inference
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
Who develops Falcon?
Falcon models are developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a research center in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Are Falcon models free for commercial use?
Yes. Falcon models are released under permissive Apache-based licenses that allow commercial use.
What sizes do Falcon models come in?
The family has spanned models from 1B-class up to Falcon 180B, including newer Falcon 3 and Falcon-H1 generations.
Who should not choose Falcon?
Anyone who needs a recorded price list or documentation page: neither is recorded, because Falcon entered the guide after the vendor-fetch round that filled those fields.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.
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