AI and Digital Science

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

TII Leads the Charge in Humanoid Robotics to Power the UAE’s AI-Driven Future

Humanoid robots are machines designed to operate like and interact with humans, both physically and behaviorally. Unlike traditional industrial robots that perf [...]
Published by : Danilo Caporale

Introducing the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard: Empowering the Arabic Language Modeling Community.

The Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard (OALL) is designed to address the growing need for specialized benchmarks in the Arabic language processing domain. As the field [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

How AI is revolutionizing biologics with better protein toxicity prediction

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role across industries, and biologics and pharmaceuticals are no exception.The UAE’s Technology Inn [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

GENZERO Poster Highlights

The TII Secure Systems Research Center’s (SSRC) recent GENZERO workshop attracted hundreds of researchers worldwide who are working on building more trustworthy [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

AI poised to revolutionize cancer treatment, but ethics must be prioritized

The rapid advances in AI and machine learning are rapidly transforming the healthcare industry, from patient experience to drug development and revolutionary di [...]
Published by : Dr. Raghvendra Mall