What Technology Innovation Institute does

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) and operates as a wholly government-owned sole proprietorship L.L.C. founded in 2020. The institute runs nine dedicated research centers covering AI and Digital Science, Autonomous Robotics, Cryptography, Advanced Materials, Directed Energy, Propulsion and Space, Quantum Computing, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and Secure Systems, supported by a workforce of approximately 1,200 employees from 83 nationalities and 100+ international collaborations. Its core product portfolio centers on the Falcon family of open-source large language models (Falcon 180B, Falcon-H1 3B/7B/34B, Falcon-H1 Arabic, Falcon-H1-Tiny 90M-0.6B, and Falcon H1R 7B reasoning), the Falcon Perception multimodal vision-language model, a Quantum Computing Cloud Platform offering 5-25 qubit superconducting QPUs integrated with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, post-quantum cryptographic libraries commercialized through the QuantumGate product line, and autonomous systems including AI-powered drone swarms. TII has 70 patents in process and has industrialized 20+ of its 100+ R&D projects.

TII's business model rests on three pillars: primary funding from the Abu Dhabi government via ATRC to support medium to long-term moonshot research; technology licensing and transfer to commercial partners (exemplified by the May 2026 sale of cryptographic AI technologies to US-based OPAQUE, the first such deployment of UAE-developed cryptographic AI at scale in the United States); and commercial partnerships with industrial and enterprise clients across defense, energy, financial services, and confidential AI. Distribution is hybrid: open-source releases via Hugging Face for community adoption, direct enterprise licensing for commercial deployment, and B2G channels for UAE sovereign AI and security programs. Strategic partnerships with NVIDIA (Megatron Core, CUDA-Q), Qualcomm (Dragonwing edge platforms), Honeywell (quantum-secure satellite communications), Space42 (space-to-ground QKD), WEF (Abu Dhabi Centre for Frontier Technologies), and Mila (joint research lab) anchor its ecosystem across compute, hardware, space, and global research networks.

Name

Technology Innovation Institute

Legal name

Technology Innovation Institute - Sole Proprietorship L.L.C

Website

https://tii.ae

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is Abu Dhabi's government-funded applied research institute operating nine centers across AI, quantum, cryptography, robotics, and advanced materials, best known for the open-source Falcon large language model family and sovereign technology programs serving UAE government, defense, and select global enterprise customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Applied AI Research & Frontier Technology

NAICS

Research and Development in Nanotechnology (541713), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Computer Related Services (541519), Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing (333242)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Optical Instruments & Lenses (3827), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

Quantum Tech Commercialization, IP, Tech Transfer & Venture Research (HDAGAMAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Quantum Hardware Architecture & Systems Engineering Research (HDAGAMAB), Quantum Performance Monitoring, Benchmarking & SLAs (HDAGAIAG), Quantum Application Engineering & Solution Delivery Services (HDAGALAD)

Keywords

• Applied AI research
• Large language models
• Quantum computing cloud
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Autonomous robotics systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Abu Dhabi

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Research Funding: Primary funding through Abu Dhabi government's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), which oversees technology research in the emirate
2. Technology Licensing and Transfer: Licensing of proprietary technologies to commercial partners; sale of cryptographic AI technologies to companies like OPAQUE
3. Commercial Partnerships: Revenue generated through commercialization of R&D outcomes with industrial and enterprise clients

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is an applied research institute that develops and commercializes frontier technologies across nine research centers, with primary commercial offerings being the Falcon family of open-source AI models (LLMs, multimodal, edge, and Arabic-specialized), a Quantum Computing Cloud Platform providing access to in-house superconducting QPUs integrated with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, and the QuantumGate post-quantum cryptography product line. TII also produces sustainable composite materials, autonomous robotics, and conducts technology licensing and transfer to enterprise and government customers globally.

Product overview

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) operates nine dedicated research centers spanning Advanced Materials, AI and Digital Science, Autonomous Robotics, Cryptography, Directed Energy, Propulsion and Space, Quantum, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and Secure Systems. TII's product portfolio centers on the Falcon family of AI models — including Falcon Perception (multimodal vision-language), Falcon-H1 Arabic, Falcon-H1-Tiny (edge AI), and Falcon H1R reasoning models — along with a Quantum Computing Cloud Platform offering access to superconducting QPUs (5–25 qubits) integrated with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, and a Cloud API for quantum-inspired algorithms. The portfolio also includes QuantumGate (post-quantum cryptography products), sustainable composite materials, and autonomous systems developed through spinoffs like SteerAI and SIRBAI. With over 100+ international collaborations and 70 patents in process, TII bridges foundational research with real-world commercialization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Falcon: Family of open-source large language models developed by TII, including Falcon 180B, Falcon-H1, Falcon-H1 Arabic, and Falcon Reasoning models.
• Falcon Perception
• Falcon-H1-Tiny

Products and services

• Falcon (LLM Family) Family of open-source large language models including Falcon 180B, Falcon-H1, Falcon-H1 Arabic, Falcon-H1-Tiny, Falcon H1R 7B, and Falcon Perception. Models are released under the TII Falcon License and are available on Hugging Face for community and enterprise use, serving AI developers, researchers, and enterprises building language, multimodal, and edge AI applications.
• Falcon-H1 Arabic Specialized Arabic-focused large language model built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture with a 256,000-token context window, available in 3B, 7B, and 34B parameter versions. It secured the top position on the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard, outperforming Meta's Llama-3.3 (70B) and Alibaba's Qwen2.5 (72B), and serves Arabic-language AI applications for the UAE's sovereign AI strategy.
• Falcon H1R 7B (Reasoning) Compact 7 billion parameter AI reasoning model optimized for speed and performance, achieving 88.1% on AIME-24 mathematics and 68.6% on coding tasks at speeds of 1,500 tokens/second/GPU at batch 64. It outperforms larger models including Microsoft Phi 4 Reasoning Plus 14B, Alibaba Qwen3 32B, and NVIDIA Nemotron H 47B, and is released as open-source on Hugging Face.
• Quantum Computing Cloud Platform Cloud service providing access to TII's in-house superconducting quantum processing units (QPUs) developed by the Quantum Computing Hardware Lab, ranging from 5 to 25 qubits, featuring coherence times up to ten times longer than first-generation prototypes. Integrated with NVIDIA CUDA-Q for global researcher access, and includes a Cloud API for executing quantum and hybrid quantum-classical workloads using the Qibo open-source framework. Targets academic researchers, quantum software developers, and enterprise R&D teams.
• QuantumGate Advanced data security product line based on TII's proprietary post-quantum cryptography technology, including post-quantum encryption tools, an identity management system, and advisory services for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography. Designed to protect data assets against cyber threats in the quantum era and serves government, defense, and enterprise customers preparing for quantum-safe security migration.
• Waste-Repurposed Composite Structures Sustainable construction materials made from locally sourced abandoned raw materials such as palm waste and bio-based binders. Achieve compressive strength of 70 MPa, flexural strength of 35 MPa, water uptake below 2%, and thermal conductivity of approximately 0.34 W/m·K. Used for bio-bricks, facades, flooring, modular construction panels, and disaster relief housing, serving the construction industry and sustainable infrastructure developers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20+ of over 100 R&D projects have been industrialized
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Linux FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 June 2026Co-hosted Confidential Computing Summit 2026 with backing from AMD and NVIDIA, where OPAQUE 3.0 was launched with TII as founding partner contributing post-quantum cryptography.
• UAE Cyber Security CouncilflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Partnership with ATRC to accelerate UAE's transition to quantum-safe security through deployment of post-quantum cryptography solutions including TII's cryptographic libraries.
• OPAQUEcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 May 2026OPAQUE acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from TII including confidential AI model training using multi-party computation and fully homomorphic encryption. This marked the first deployment at scale of UAE-developed cryptographic AI technologies in the US.
• AMDcoreTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Hardware support for OPAQUE 3.0 platform with TII as founding partner contributing post-quantum cryptography for verifiable agent identities.
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 March 2026Diamond sponsor of AI for Good Global Summit 2026 in Geneva, supporting UN dialogue on AI governance and showcasing AI applications for societal benefit.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or Integration · 9 March 2026Integration of Falcon-H1 hybrid architecture into NVIDIA Megatron Core, and integration of TII Quantum Computing Cloud Platform with NVIDIA CUDA-Q environment for global quantum research access.
• EDGE Group, Micropolis, SteerAIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 January 2026Coalition launched Autonomous Logistics Platform (ALP) to automate UAE military logistics using AI-powered unmanned ground vehicles with TII contributing AI-driven analytics through TACTICAi.
• Qualcomm TechnologiescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 January 2026Strategic collaboration to advance edge-AI and autonomous robotics solutions. TII integrates Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9 and IQ10 Series edge platforms for developing autonomous systems capable of real-time, on-device processing for humanoid robots, aerial systems, and environmental monitoring.
• World Economic ForumflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 January 2026Launch of Abu Dhabi Centre for Frontier Technologies as part of WEF's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Network, focusing on Quantum Computing, Robotics, Space Tech, and AI.
• ADNOCcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 December 2025Partnership with TII on quantum sensing for battery optimization as part of ADNOC's energy storage strategy.
• HoneywellcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 November 2025Joint initiative to develop quantum-secure satellite communication systems by integrating Honeywell's QKDSat platform with TII's Abu Dhabi Quantum Optical Ground Station for end-to-end QKD links.
• Mila (Montréal AI Research Centre)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 November 2025Strategic partnership on AI research including establishing a joint research lab within Mila, enabling TII researchers to have Canadian presence and collaborate on AI safety and machine learning models.
• ThalescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 November 2025Collaboration agreement during Dubai Airshow to develop advanced detection technologies and multi-domain robotics with joint research in quantum physics-based detection and autonomous mobility.
• Space42coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 November 2025Partnership to co-develop and deploy UAE's first space-to-ground quantum communication network using sovereign QKD technology, spanning R&D, payload development, satellite integration, and ground operations.
• Amazon Web ServicescoreTechnology or Integration · 21 May 2025TII and AI71 collaboration with AWS to scale AI innovations in the UAE and internationally through cloud infrastructure.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Allen Institute for AI (AI2): Non-profit AI research institute with multiple research divisions producing open-source models (OLMo, Tülu). Most directly comparable to TII as a mission-driven, multi-center applied AI research organization focused on open releases and scientific publications.
• Mila (Quebec AI Institute): Quebec-based AI research institute founded by Yoshua Bengio; TII has a formal strategic partnership with Mila to establish a joint research lab. Comparable as a publicly funded, multi-stakeholder AI research consortium producing open models and academic output.
• Mistral AI: European frontier AI lab with an open-weight model strategy and enterprise commercialization. Comparable to TII's Falcon open-source release approach and focus on sovereign/regional AI differentiation.
• SandboxAQ: Spun out of Alphabet to commercialize AI + quantum + post-quantum cryptography for enterprise and government. Directly comparable to TII's QuantumGate and cryptographic AI offerings, especially for sensitive/regulated customers.
• IonQ: Public quantum computing company offering trapped-ion QPUs via cloud. Comparable to TII's Quantum Computing Cloud Platform in business model (cloud access to proprietary quantum hardware) and target customers (researchers and enterprises).
• Rigetti Computing: Public quantum computing company building superconducting QPUs and offering cloud access. Closest direct hardware-and-cloud parallel to TII's superconducting QPU lab and Quantum Cloud Platform.

Broad incumbents

• Inria: French national public research institute in digital sciences and AI. Comparable to TII as a government-funded applied research organization operating across multiple research centers with both academic and commercial output.
• Anthropic: Frontier AI lab building Claude models with focus on AI safety and enterprise deployment. Listed as TII customer for confidential AI workflows; broader competitor in the same model-quality tier.
• OpenAI: Frontier AI lab behind GPT models. Broad incumbent competitor in language, multimodal, and reasoning model benchmarks where Falcon models compete, with vastly greater compute and capital.

Emerging players

• Q-CTRL: Quantum infrastructure software company specializing in quantum control, benchmarking, and performance optimization. Overlaps with TII's quantum performance and reliability work, and serves similar research and enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

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Funding rounds

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