Falcon LLM: A High-Performance and Open-Source Large Language Model

Falcon LLM

Open-Source LLMs

Falcon LLM is a large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters that can generate natural language and code. It was developed by Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi and is open-sourced under the Apache License Version 2.0. Falcon LLM can be used for various tasks such as chatbots, content creation, language translation, and sentiment analysis. It is one of the most efficient and powerful LLMs in the world, outperforming GPT-3 and other state-of-the-art models on several benchmarks.

How It Works

Falcon is a massive decoder-only model with 40 billion parameters that can generate text autoregressively. It was trained on 1 trillion tokens using 384 GPUs on AWS for two months.
The pretraining data for Falcon came from public web crawls that were filtered, deduplicated, and cleaned to remove machine-generated text and adult content. The resulting pretraining dataset had almost five trillion tokens.
This dataset was supplemented with selected sources such as academic papers and social media conversations to diversify Falcon AI skills.
Finally, Falcon’s performance was evaluated on open-source benchmarks such as EAI Harness, HELM, and BigBench.

Falcon AI Family

The below table provides a comprehensive overview of the artefacts in the Falcon LLM family:

Artefact	Link	Type	Details
🥇 Falcon-40B	Here	pretrained model	40B parameters trained on 1,000 billion tokens.
Falcon-40B-Instruct	Here	instruction/chat model	Falcon-40B finetuned on the Baize dataset.
🥈 Falcon-7B	Here	pretrained model	6.7B parameters trained on 1,500 billion tokens.
Falcon-7B-Instruct	Here	instruction/chat model	Falcon-7B finetuned on the Baize, GPT4All, and GPTeacher datasets.
📀 RefinedWeb	Here	pretraining web dataset	~600 billion “high-quality” tokens.
Falcon-RW-1B	Here	pretrained model	1.3B parameters trained on 350 billion tokens.
Falcon-RW-7B	Here	pretrained model	7.5B parameters trained on 350 billion tokens.

Falcon AI Use Cases

Creative text and problem solving

Falcon can generate original and engaging text for various purposes, such as marketing, storytelling, education, and entertainment. It can also help users solve complex problems by providing logical and actionable suggestions.

Chatbots and customer service

Falcon can power chatbots that can understand and communicate fluently in different languages, provide relevant and helpful information, and handle diverse and complex requests from customers.

Content generation and sentiment analysis

Falcon LLM can produce high-quality content for websites, blogs, social media, and other platforms, tailored to the target audience and tone. It can also analyze the sentiment of the text and provide feedback and suggestions to improve it.

Process automation and efficiency

Falcon LLM can help Emirati companies and startups reduce and automate repetitive and tedious tasks, such as data entry, report writing, email management, and scheduling. This will allow employees to focus on more creative and strategic work.

Personal assistant and lifestyle

Falcon AI can assist users in their daily lives by providing reminders, recommendations, tips, and fun facts. It can also help users with their hobbies, interests, goals, and well-being.

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FAQ

Is Falcon LLM free?

Yes, Falcon LLM is free for research and commercial use under the Apache License Version 2.0.

How can I access Falcon LLM?

You can access Falcon LLM through the Hugging Face Page

What is Falcon-40B?

Falcon-40B is a general-purpose large language model with 40 billion parameters trained on one trillion tokens of text and code. It is one of the four versions of Falcon LLM available.

Can I submit my case proposal?

Yes, you can submit your case proposal for using Falcon LLM to the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) through their website. TII is offering training compute power and commercialization opportunities for exceptional use cases.