Falcon-Edge

TII · 2025 · LLM · UAE

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: TII
C · CEO & Politics: Najwa Aaraj
D · Date: 2025
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: UAE
K · Key Staffers: Najwa Aaraj (CEO)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Falcon-LLM License)
Q · AIDb Rating: 5/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 8/10 · Significance 4/10 → 4.60
R · What Makes It Special: Falcon-Edge, the Technology Innovation Institute's series of 1.58-bit language models based on the BitNet architecture, which trains ternary weights of -1, 0 and 1 from the start: it comes in 1B and 3B sizes, each in base and instruct versions, and one training run yields a bfloat16 model, the native BitNet model and a pre-quantized BitNet version built for easy fine-tuning. The models run with Hugging Face transformers, the BitNet library or mlx-lm and use TII's Falcon LLM license.
S · Stock / Status: Government-backed (UAE)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @TIIuae
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from TII, released 2025.

Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗

“Falcon-Edge.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/tii-falcon-edge.html