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Dubai Police Boost Fleet With All-New Volkswagen Amarok
The delivery of the high-tech new vehicle comes from long-term partner Al Nabooda Automobiles, Dubai’s official VW distributor.
Al Nabooda Automobiles LLC, the officially authorized distributor for Volkswagen in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, has formally delivered the all-new Volkswagen Amarok to the Dubai Police fleet. Featuring a comprehensive redesign, robust performance, and off-road capabilities, the new Amarok is poised to support officers in ensuring safe travel for motorists throughout Dubai.
Al Nabooda Automobiles has maintained a longstanding partnership with Dubai Police, supplying the fleet with cutting-edge vehicles renowned for their performance, dependability, and versatility.
H.E. Lieutenant General Abdulla Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, affirmed the General Command’s dedication to outfitting the tourist security patrol fleet with the latest luxury models:
“We are delighted to cooperate with Al Nabooda Automobiles, a longstanding national company deeply committed to initiatives that positively enhance Dubai’s image and its position as a top destination for living, working, tourism, and investment. We are confident that these cars will contribute to enhancing both the traffic and security sectors, thereby supporting police operations and achieving the strategic goals of maintaining road safety and community security,” His Excellency explained.
Dubai Police hopes that the new Volkswagen vehicles will not only bolster the security presence of the tourist police but also facilitate engagement with tourists, visitors, and the public.
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With its exceptional on-road and off-road capabilities, the Amarok is a reliable asset for the Dubai force. The vehicle features an impressive towing capacity of up to 3,500 kg and a maximum payload of 1.19 tonnes. Equipped with advanced 4MOTION all-wheel-drive technology and a differential lock, the Amarok excels in navigating the kinds of harsh terrains often encountered by Dubai Police officers. The adaptable all-wheel-drive system offers four customizable drive modes, ensuring optimal performance on any surface by intelligently distributing power among all four wheels via a multi-plate clutch.
Add in a powerful turbocharged engine, impressive safety features, and a stylish new design, and it’s clear Dubai’s traffic officers will be eager to get behind the wheel of the new Amarok.
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UAE-Built Falcon-H1 Arabic Leads LLM Benchmarks
The lean Emirati-built language model beats larger global systems and puts Arabic at the center of training.
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute has released an Arabic-first large language model that tops global test boards, an uncommon edge for a region long served by English-centric systems.
Falcon-H1 Arabic comes in 3B, 7B and 34B versions. The flagship posts 75.36% accuracy on comprehensive Arabic tasks and ranks first on the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard. It also outperforms Meta’s Llama-70B and Alibaba’s Qwen-72B while using less than half their parameters. The smallest model beats Microsoft’s Phi-4 Mini by ten percentage points on equivalent benchmarks.
Arabic remains hard territory for AI. Flexible word order, dense morphology and constant switching between regional dialects and Modern Standard Arabic leave many global models missing context or tone. Academic research has pointed to a shortage of annotated datasets for dialect and informal speech. The impact shows up in classrooms, call centers and government portals where Arabic chatbots lag their English counterparts.
TII trained Falcon-H1 Arabic on formal writing, dialects and culturally grounded content. Beyond scores, it handles practical use: long conversations, reasoning rather than literal translation, and inputs of up to 192,000 words — enough for medical records or legal filings.
“The aim is innovation that is accessible, relevant, and impactful,” said Faisal Al Bannai, Adviser to the UAE President and Secretary-General of the Advanced Technology Research Council.
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Arabic is spoken by more than 450 million people across over 20 countries, yet has often been treated as a secondary language for foundation models. The UAE move signals a push to flip that logic and build Arabic-native stacks rather than wait for global systems to improve.
Falcon models have led their categories since 2023. With H1 Arabic, TII is offering free access via chat.falconllm.tii.ae for developers, media, healthcare and public-sector users looking to automate in natural Arabic.
As the region continues to invest in sovereign computing and data localization, the addition of Falcon-H1 Arabic adds a powerful tool built for the native language, instead of an afterthought attached to an English-trained system.
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