Falcon Open LLM

Falcon is a family of language models created by the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi.

Falcon-40B, in particular, stands out as a "truly open" model with powerful capabilities.This is noteworthy for creatives as it opens doors to various practical applications.

• Falcon 180B Update (September 2023): Falcon 180B has been released, making it the largest openly available model, rivaling proprietary models like PaLM-2.
• What Makes Falcon Unique: Falcon offers two primary models, Falcon-40B and Falcon-7B. Falcon-40B is a high-performance model that requires substantial GPU memory, while Falcon-7B is more accessible and suitable for consumer hardware.
• Instruct Versions: Falcon also provides instruct versions, Falcon-7B-Instruct and Falcon-40B-Instruct, fine-tuned on instructions and conversational data. These variants excel in tasks like assisting, making them valuable for creative endeavors.
• High-Quality Training Data: Falcon's high-quality training data, primarily derived from RefinedWeb, ensures impressive performance. It incorporates minimal curated sources, making it stand out from other language models.
• Multiquery Attention: Falcon employs multiquery attention, a technique that enhances scalability and reduces memory costs during inference, allowing for novel optimizations.
• Easy Text Generation: Creatives can easily experiment with Falcon through text generation interfaces. Whether you need content ideas, answers to questions, or creative writing prompts, Falcon delivers.
• Fine-Tuning Opportunities: For those seeking to tailor models to specific tasks, Falcon offers fine-tuning capabilities, enabling you to create your own custom versions.
• Inference and Deployment: Falcon can be deployed using various methods, making it suitable for a wide range of creative applications. Hugging Face's infrastructure simplifies deployment and usage.
• Performance: Falcon's performance in reasoning, answering, and generating text is highly competitive, as evidenced by its top rankings on the LLM leaderboard. Falcon is an exciting addition to the toolkit of creatives, offering a range of possibilities for content generation, creative writing, and more.