Abu Dhabi's open model scaled to 180 billion parameters.

Abu Dhabi built a frontier model, then gave it away.

In 2023 the Technology Innovation Institute released Falcon 180B - a 180-billion-parameter model trained on 3.5 trillion tokens, freely downloadable worldwide. A research institute in the Gulf became a global open-weights supplier.

The move: open the model, and the whole world builds on your work.

The Gulf is a source of frontier AI, not just a buyer.