UAE Business: TII launches world’s largest Arabic NLP model – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: TII launches world’s largest Arabic NLP model – Gulf Digital News

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council, has launched Noor, the world’s largest Arabic natural language processing (NLP) model to date.

TII’s team of advanced researchers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) specialists at its AI Cross-Center Unit, joined forces on this initiative with LightOn, a technology company that unlocks extreme-scale machine intelligence for businesses, to revolutionize Arabic NLP models.

The Noor model carries out varied, cross-domain tasks simply from natural language instructions. To build Noor, researchers at TII designed an end-to-end pipeline for the collection of high-quality data, including crawling, filtering, and curation at scale. TII’s specialists also built optimized services for extreme-scale distributed training and serving – to deliver applications with efficient inference and model specialization.

Dr Ray O Johnson, CEO, TII and ASPIRE, said: “With this development, we are on track to boost our research capabilities and credentials in AI, as well as elevating the status of Abu Dhabi and the UAE as a serious research ecosystem. Our expert teams have demonstrated yet again that this region can achieve breakthrough R&D outcomes that impact the world.”

Dr Ebtesam Almazrouei, Director, AI Cross-Center Unit, TII, said: “Large language models have taken the world of natural language