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Falcon
TII's open Falcon models from Abu Dhabi — efficient hybrid Mamba-Transformer models, including Arabic-focused versions.
Model Facts
Latest model: Falcon H1R 7B
- Provider
- Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
- Released
- Jan 5, 2026
- Weights
- Open
Benchmarks
Full Model List
| Model | Released | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon H1R 7B | Jan 5, 2026 | current | 7B reasoning model, open |
| Falcon-H1 Arabic | Jan 1, 2026 | current | 3B, 7B and 34B Arabic-focused models; month approximate |
- Official model page:
- falconllm.tii.ae
- Official documentation:
- huggingface.co/tiiuae
- Other sources:
- Falcon H1R 7B (ITWeb)
What it is
Falcon is the open model family from Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute. Falcon H1R 7B (January 5, 2026) is a compact reasoning model that TII says outperforms larger open models from Microsoft, Alibaba and NVIDIA, scoring 88.1% on AIME-24. TII also released Falcon-H1 Arabic in 3B, 7B and 34B sizes, built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture.
Where this information comes from
Benchmark and comparison claims are TII's own from the January 2026 announcement. Release dates, context windows and benchmark scores are vendor-reported unless stated, and harnesses differ between labs, so treat the numbers as indicative.
Notable traits
- Efficient hybrid architecture.
- Strong Arabic-language support.
- Small enough to run on modest hardware.