United Arab Emirates built the latest top-performing open source large language model

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"... A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model. 

What’s new: The UAE’s Falcon edged out Meta’s LLaMA in the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard to take the top spot. It’s available via the Apache 2.0 license, which is free for commercial applications. You can try it here.

How it works: Developed by Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Falcon is a pretrained model based on transformers. A paper is forthcoming. ..."

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