Ethiopian Airlines Group has announced plans to build Africa’s largest airport in Abusera – a critical element of Ethiopian’s 15-year strategic plan to become one of the most competitive aviation groups in the world.

The airport’s location allows for progressive growth, empowering the airline to meet the International Air Transport Association’s forecasts of more than 200% growth over the next decade – growing beyond Bole International Airport, which offers no possibilities for significant expansion. Abusera’s lower altitude will elevate aircraft take-off performance, while an express rail link to Addis Ababa facilitates connectivity. 

In its first phase scheduled for 2029, the airport will ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Monday, 12. August 2024

The Falcon Mamba 7B is the no. 1 globally performing open source State Space Language Model (SSLM), as independently verified by Hugging Face
SSLMs have a low memory cost and don’t require additional memory to generate arbitrary long blocks of text
Falcon Mamba 7B also outperforms traditional transformer architecture models such Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral’s 7B
New model reflects the innovation and pioneering approach of Abu Dhabi in AI research and development
 

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has released a new large language model in its Falcon series, the Falcon Mamba 7B. The new model is the no. 1 globally performing open source State Space Language Model (SSLM) in the world, as independently verified by ... Read more »