Benchmark Almanac

Alyah

Falcon-Emirati-7B 84.8% In use

Models answer 1,173 four-option questions written by native Emirati speakers on greetings, idioms, figurative language, heritage and poetry in Emirati Arabic dialect.

The release post evaluates 54 models (23 base, 31 instruction-tuned). LLMs generated the distractors and humans reviewed them. TII refers to an Alyah leaderboard.

Made by Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and community contributors Released Jan 2026 Knowledge in many languages All tasks public Last in a launch post Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 2026
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Multiple choice
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

Falcon-Emirati-7B leads with 84.8%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Falcon-Emirati-7B 84.8%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Falcon-Emirati-7B 84.8% Oct 2026 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Falcon-Emirati-7B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Falcon-Emirati-7B

One lab put it in a launch post in the last six months

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Technology Innovation Institute
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
6 Oct 2026 Falcon-Emirati-7B 84.8 Alyah accuracy (%)

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