DUBAI, 21 May (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates launched a new Arabic Language Artificial Intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday while the regional race to develop AI technologies in the Golf is accelerating.
The VAE, a large oil exporter, has issued billions of dollars in a push to become a global AI player and wants to use his strong relations with the United States to ensure access to technology.
During a visit last week, US President Donald Trump said that an AI agreement with the VAE creates a path to gain access to some of the advanced AI and half -guides of American companies, a big victory for the Golfland.
Falcon Arabic, developed by the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) of Abu Dhabi, aims to capture the entire language diversity of the Arab world via a “high-quality (non-praised) Arabic data set,” a statement said.
It also corresponds to the performance of models up to 10 times its size, it said.
“Nowadays, AI leadership is not about scale because of the scale. It is about making powerful tools useful, usable and universal,” said Faisal Al Bannai, ATRC -Secretary -General in the statement.
ATRC also launched Falcon H1, of which it said it is better than reducing competitors from Meta and Alibaba by reducing the computing power and technical expertise that is traditionally needed to run advanced systems.
AI was also a central theme during Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, which throws itself as a potential hub for AI activity outside the US
Earlier this month, the Kingdom launched a new company to develop and manage AI technologies and infrastructure, which also offer one of the world's most powerful multimodal Arabic large language models, according to a statement. (Reporting by Yousef Saba; Writing by Sarah El Safty; Edit by Rachna Uppal)
