Falcon 3

weights

open

data

closed

code

closed

license

TII-Falcon-License-2.0(Apache-based+AUP,non-OSI)

Weights are downloadable and freely usable commercially at any scale, but the corpus is not released and there is no training code, so 3. Not 2: the TII-Falcon-License-2.0 is Apache-based with an acceptable-use policy, and a conduct restriction caps neither who may use the model nor at what scale, so it belongs with permissive non-OSI licenses and attribution requirements rather than with capped ones such as Llama's 700M-MAU ceiling. Not 4 or 5 either, since corpus and pipeline are both closed and the license is non-OSI in any case - the open-source definition forbids discriminating against a field of endeavor. Hugging Face reports the license as 'other', an abstention rather than an answer, so the reading rests on TII's published text.

• https://huggingface.co/api/models/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base recorded 2026-08-13

  `gated: false`, `private: false`, safetensors weight files, 5,292 downloads and 41 likes; cardData.license is `other`, so the Hub does not name the license and the tier rests on the TII text.

• https://huggingface.co/blog/falcon3 recorded 2026-08-13

  "We conducted a single large-scale pretraining run on the 7B model, using 1024 H100 GPU chips, leveraging 14 trillion tokens featuring web, code, STEM, and curated high-quality and multilingual data" - the corpus is characterized but not released, and no training pipeline is published.

• https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Base recorded 2026-08-13

  Falcon3-7B-Base model card, weights downloadable under the TII Falcon License 2.0

• https://www.tii.ae/news/falcon-3-uaes-technology-innovation-institute-launches-worlds-most-powerful-small-ai-models recorded 2026-08-13

  TII launch announcement for the Falcon 3 family of sub-13B models

The single declared artifact tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base returns 5,292 downloads in the trailing 30 days, alongside 41 likes, which bands at level 1 (<10K) on the model adoption scale. A measured download count outranks a reported-traction read, and here it confirms what the family's own description already said: relevance has faded against newer small language models.

• https://huggingface.co/api/models/tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base recorded 2026-08-14

  5,292 downloads in the trailing 30 days for tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base, the single declared artifact

• https://venturebeat.com/ai/uaes-falcon-3-challenges-open-source-leaders-amid-surging-demand-for-small-ai-models recorded 2026-06-04

  VentureBeat piece on Falcon 3 and demand for small models; the host answers HTTP 429, so it is not a live source for the band.

• https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Base recorded 2026-08-15

  Model card for tiiuae/Falcon3-7B-Base, licence tag `falcon-llm-license`, reporting 14,911 downloads last month and 152,111 all-time. NOTE: this sibling is not a declared artifact, and its figure alone is above the <10K band this record sits in — see the note on the family sum.

Falcon3-10B-Base: MMLU 73.1, MMLU-Pro 42.5, GSM8K 83.0; Falcon3-7B-Base: MMLU 67.4, MMLU-Pro 39.2. Competitive among sub-13B in 2024 but low vs 2026 frontier.

• https://huggingface.co/blog/falcon3 recorded 2026-08-13

  Falcon3-10B-Base MMLU 73.1, MMLU-Pro 42.5, GSM8K 83.0; Falcon3-7B-Base MMLU 67.4, MMLU-Pro 39.2 - all five present.