Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here

Falcon Perception

Welcome to the Falcon 3 Family of Open Models!

The Falcon has landed in the Hugging Face ecosystem

Welcome Falcon Mamba: The first strong attention-free 7B model

FALCON-S: Fixed-wing ground-effect Aerodynamics Simulator and Flight Control Learning Suite

FALCON‑S is a modular, high‑fidelity simulator designed for fixed‑wing aerial robots operating near the ground. It models full 6DoF rigid‑body physics, semi‑empirical ground‑effect aerodynamics, actuator dynamics, sensor noise, and environmental disturbances, and supports both CPU and GPU backends via Torch and NVIDIA Warp for large‑scale reinforcement learning and optimal control. The framework offers a unified interface for various controllers, including RL and optical control algorithms, and allows cross‑validation with X‑Plane and JSBSim for engineering integration and visual fidelity.

Falcon 2: An 11B parameter pretrained language model and VLM, trained on over 5000B tokens and 11 languages

DiffAero: A GPU-Accelerated Differentiable Simulation Framework for Efficient Quadrotor Policy Learning

arXiv:2509. 10247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This letter introduces DiffAero, a lightweight, GPU-accelerated, and fully differentiable simulation framework designed for efficient quadrotor control policy learning.

Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican

The photographer captured a Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, and California Brown Pelican in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, California, using a 200‑800mm Canon EF lens. The birds were observed congregating beneath a harbor sign, providing a striking image of wildlife in their natural habitat.

PerchRL: Vision-Based Agile Perching on Inclined Platforms under Rapid and Irregular Motion

arXiv:2606. 03441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vision-based perching of quadrotors on moving inclined platforms is critical for air-ground collaboration but remains challenging due to the limited field of view (FOV).

StackLLaMA: A hands-on guide to train LLaMA with RLHF

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

AirDreamer: Generalist Drone Navigation with World Models

arXiv:2606. 03252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization to unseen scene layouts and understanding of environmental structure relative to the robot's capabilities.