BLOOM vs. Falcon
LLM Comparison
BLOOM
Overview
BLOOM is a open source LLM developed as part of the BigScience Workshop by Hugging Face in collaboration with other research organizations.
A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.
Initial release: 2022-07-06
Further Reading
Falcon
Overview
Falcon LLM is the flagship LLM of the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi.
Falcon LLM is a powerful LLM developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (https://www.tii.ae). Unlike other popular LLMs, Falcon was not built off of LLaMA, but instead using a custom data pipeline and distributed training system. The dataset is the RefinedWeb dataset (available on Hugging Face), and the initial models are available in 7B and 40B forms. Instruct and chat-finetuned models are available as well. Perhaps most excitingly, Falcon outperforms LLaMA, the previous de facto pretrained LLM.
Initial release: 2023-05-23
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| License | Open RAIL-M v1 | Apache 2.0 |
| Model Sizes | 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B | 7B, 40B |