TII Releases Falcon Perception — Open-Weight Multimodal Vision Model for Local Deployment
The Technology Innovation Institute has released Falcon Perception, an open weight vision language model available on Hugging Face. The model supports image un…
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Apr 8, 2026, 8:46 AM UTC
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Apr 7, 2026
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Apr 8, 2026, 8:46 AM UTC
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The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the Abu Dhabi based research organisation behind the Falcon language model series, has released Falcon Perception , an open weight vision language model (VLM) targeting local deployment on consumer and prosumer hardware. Model Specifications Falcon Perception is available in two sizes: Size Parameters VRAM (Q4 K M) VRAM (FP16) 7B 7 billion 5 GB 14 GB 11B 11 billion 7.5 GB 22 GB The 7B variant runs comfortably on an RTX 3080 (10 GB) or RTX 4070 (12 GB) at Q4 K M quantisation. The 11B variant fits on an RTX 3090 or RTX 4090 at Q4 K M, or requires 24 GB VRAM for FP16 inference. Capabilities Falcon Perception supports: Image understanding : Object recognition, scene description, spatial reasoning Document analysis : OCR, table extraction, form understanding from scanned documents Visual question answering : Multi turn conversations grounded in imag…