Falcon-180B Takes Open Source LLMs Closer to GPT-4
Just a few months ago, The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) shook the world of foundation models with the release of Falcon LLM, setting a new benchmark for open-source AI
Falcon-180B, the latest masterpiece from TII, is here to rewrite the rules once again! This colossal model boasts a jaw-dropping 180B parameters, making it a true game-changer in the world of AI.
Trained on a staggering 3.5 trillion tokens, utilizing 4096 GPUs and a whopping 7M GPU hours, Falcon 180B stands as a testament to human ingenuity and the limitless potential of open-source AI
It is touted as the "Llama 2" killer due to its higher performance as a pretrained-only model. As of September 2023, Falcon 180B ranked as the highest-performing pretrained LLM on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard.
The model is big. Inference requires 640GB of memory — a mere eight A100 80GB GPUs — when quantized to half-precision (FP16). Alternatively, we can quantize down to int4, requiring eight A100 40GB GPUs (320GB memory). That can easily put you back $20K / month if you keep it online.
For some, this price tag may be worth it. Falcon 180B's license permits commercial usage and allows organizations to keep their data on their chosen infrastructure, control training, and maintain more ownership over their model than alternatives like OpenAI's GPT-4 can provide.
With performance levels that defy expectations, Falcon 180B effortlessly outshines its competitors in tasks like reasoning, coding proficiency, and knowledge tests. It even outperforms the mighty GPT-3.5, bridging the gap between open-source and closed models.
It is the highest-performing open-access LLM and is comparable the PaLM-2 Large (which powers Bard).
Falcon 180B is a testament to the unstoppable momentum of open-source foundation models.From Stable Diffusion to Llama and now Falcon, the innovation in this space is electrifying.
So, what's next? The future looks bright! With this pace of innovation, it won't be long before open-source models outshine even GPT-4! The momentum is REAL, and there's no stopping it.
Falcon-180B, the latest masterpiece from TII, is here to rewrite the rules once again! This colossal model boasts a jaw-dropping 180B parameters, making it a true game-changer in the world of AI.
Trained on a staggering 3.5 trillion tokens, utilizing 4096 GPUs and a whopping 7M GPU hours, Falcon 180B stands as a testament to human ingenuity and the limitless potential of open-source AI
It is touted as the "Llama 2" killer due to its higher performance as a pretrained-only model. As of September 2023, Falcon 180B ranked as the highest-performing pretrained LLM on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard.
The model is big. Inference requires 640GB of memory — a mere eight A100 80GB GPUs — when quantized to half-precision (FP16). Alternatively, we can quantize down to int4, requiring eight A100 40GB GPUs (320GB memory). That can easily put you back $20K / month if you keep it online.
For some, this price tag may be worth it. Falcon 180B's license permits commercial usage and allows organizations to keep their data on their chosen infrastructure, control training, and maintain more ownership over their model than alternatives like OpenAI's GPT-4 can provide.
With performance levels that defy expectations, Falcon 180B effortlessly outshines its competitors in tasks like reasoning, coding proficiency, and knowledge tests. It even outperforms the mighty GPT-3.5, bridging the gap between open-source and closed models.
It is the highest-performing open-access LLM and is comparable the PaLM-2 Large (which powers Bard).
Falcon 180B is a testament to the unstoppable momentum of open-source foundation models.From Stable Diffusion to Llama and now Falcon, the innovation in this space is electrifying.
So, what's next? The future looks bright! With this pace of innovation, it won't be long before open-source models outshine even GPT-4! The momentum is REAL, and there's no stopping it.
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