AI and Digital Science

Inside Abu Dhabi's Nvidia lab: Teaching robots to think, adapt like humans

With Nvidia lab, Abu Dhabi reinforces its position as a global leader in AI and robotics.Engineers are testing robotic arms that adapt to changes and 4-legged r [...]
Published by : Khaleej Times

Why every Arab country is racing to build its own large language model

Regional investment in Arabic AI is soaring, with the market set to exceed $160 billion by 2030.Arabic is spoken by more than 450 million people, yet artificial [...]
Published by : The National

The UAE is giving away its advanced AI

The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a neutral tech power between the U.S. and China.The UAE offers Falc [...]
Published by : Rest of World

Homegrown AI models pivot to smaller models, native Arabic data amid growing competition

Try talking to your favorite AI tool in Arabic and ask it to speak in your dialect, and you’ll be surprised how authentic it sounds. For your day-to-day request [...]
Published by : Enterprise AM

From oil to knowledge industries: Abu Dhabi’s Falcon Economy takes off

An image depicting Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder and first president of the UAE, created with drones at a New Year’s Eve show in Abu Dhabi on J [...]
Published by : The Straits Times

Chief AI researcher in UAE says focus must be on solutions, not just cost, after DeepSeek

Developing platforms addressing real-world problems is more important, says the Technology Innovation Institute’s Hakim Hacid.The emergence of more affordable a [...]
Published by : The National

Inside Falcon: The UAE’s open source model challenging AI giants

Learn about Falcon, the open source models leading the Middle East’s AI futureIn the wake of Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, a myriad of AI models came and went, [...]
Published by : Capacity ME

The UAE’s big bet on openness is paying off

Experts say that as adoption grows across academia, industry, and government, the multiplier effects of open-source AI will continue to scale over the coming ye [...]
Published by : Fast Company ME

Why teaching Arabic to AI is hard and how UAE researchers are solving it

The challenge stems from the language's structure, which includes a high variation between Modern Standard Arabic and regional dialectsBuilding artificial intel [...]
Published by : Khaleej Times

Falcon-H1 Arabic: Redefining AI for the Arabic Language with Dr. Hakim Hacid

Dr. Hakim Hacid, Chief Researcher for the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Science Research Center at TII, discusses Falcon-H1 Arabic, the UAE’s pioneering l [...]
Published by : Dr. Hakim Hacid

UAE-built Arabic AI model outperforms systems twice its size

Falcon-H1 Arabic was trained on Arabic-first datasets covering formal language, regional dialects, and culturally grounded contentAbu Dhabi has built an artific [...]
Published by : Khaleej Times

Big leap for UAE's homegrown AI as TII releases new Falcon language models

As next-generation technologies evolve at speed, the UAE is asserting itself as a global AI builder. That momentum is reflected in the Technology Innovation Ins [...]
Published by : Al Etihad