Meet Our Chairman

His Excellency Faisal Al Bannai
H.E. Faisal Al Bannai was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI) by TIME magazine.
Under H.E. Faisal Al Bannai’s leadership, ATRC has driven transformative advancements in AI, particularly through the development of the Falcon LLM series by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII). Falcon, an open-source series of AI models, is designed to democratize access to AI technology, fostering global equity and ensuring its benefits are accessible to all.
He launched AI71 in 2023 to bring the power of Falcon to the world through transformative AI-powered enterprise solutions.
At AI71’s launch, he said, "In the UAE, collaboration is more than a practice—it's embedded in our DNA. Our Falcon generative AI models, at the heart of AI71, empower developers, companies, and countries, and grant them autonomy to steer their own data destiny. With access to the UAE’s centralized datasets, the deliberate commercialization of our AI models across diverse sectors stands as a pivotal element in our AI71 roadmap. While we explore this avenue, we also make a firm commitment to perpetually open sourcing Falcon AI models, because only by democratizing these precious data resources do we truly benefit all of society.”
Meet some of our people

Dr. Mahir Nayfeh

Mehdi Ghissassi

Salim Chemlal

Anushe Sheikh

Xiaye “Asha” Xu

Moulay Alaoui

Qais Ali Al-Lafi

Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan

Ramy Makari

Kate Kamarchuk

Tarique Hussain
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