UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

Falcons AI, an AI company based in Ras Al Khaimah, has developed an NSFW (Not Safe for Work) image classifier that has achieved significant global recognition. Their Fine-Tuned Vision Transformer (ViT) model recorded over 50.8 million downloads on Hugging Face in the past 28 days, making it the sixth most downloaded AI model among over 1,400 hosted on the platform. This success underscores the increasing impact of UAE-based AI research within the open-source community.