In a major move that puts the UAE at the forefront of AI innovation in the Arab world, Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has launched Falcon Arabic,  a powerful new AI model designed entirely around the Arabic language. 

Recently, Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) made waves with the simultaneous release of three groundbreaking AI models, marking a bold step toward democratizing advanced AI across languages, platforms, and devices. Among them, one model stood out as a historic milestone: Falcon Arabic, the most advanced large language model (LLM) ever trained natively in Arabic. 

This is more than just a language upgrade. It’s a major leap forward in making artificial intelligence truly understand and communicate in Arabic, with all its richness, complexity, and cultural depth. 

Most AI models today are trained in English — and when they try to “learn” Arabic, they usually do so using machine-translated data. That approach often strips away cultural nuance and how the Arabic language is actually spoken, especially the way it is used by people in different Arab countries and regions. 

Falcon Arabic is trained entirely on native Arabic content, including Modern Standard Arabic as well as the everyday spoken dialects from across the Middle East and North Africa, including Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and Maghrebi Arabic, ensuring linguistic authenticity and deeper cultural fluency. Built on Falcon 3-7B with a 32K context, it is now the leading Arabic LLM in its class, fluent across dialects and strong in reasoning. 

Falcon Arabic was created by TII, part of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC). The model is the result of years of work by linguists, AI engineers, and data scientists. Their goal was to give the Arabic-speaking world an AI model that actually speaks the way its people do and to do it in a way that respects regional culture and values.