Key Points:

  • Introduction of Falcon 180B: Hugging Face AI community has released Falcon 180B, an open-source large language model with 180 billion parameters, trained on 3.5 trillion tokens.
  • Unprecedented Scale: Falcon 180B is 2.5 times larger than Meta’s LLaMA 2 model, which was previously considered the most capable open-source language model.
  • Benchmark Performance: Falcon 180B outperforms LLaMA 2 and nearly matches commercial models like Google’s PaLM-2 in various natural language processing tasks.
  • Comparison with ChatGPT: Falcon 180B is more powerful than the free version of ChatGPT but slightly less capable than the paid “plus” version.
  • Future Prospects: The model is expected to see further enhancements from the community, making it a significant development in open-source AI.
New Open-Source ‘Falcon’ AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google – Decrypt
Meta’s massive, 70-billion parameter LLaMA 2 has been outflanked by the newly released 180-billion parameter Falcon Large Language Model.