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Falcon vs. GPTNeo

LLM Comparison


Falcon

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

GPTNeo

GPTNeo

Overview

GPTNeo is a model released by EleutherAI to try and provide an open source model with capabilities similar to OpenAI's GPT-3 model. One of the earliest such models, GPTNeo was trained on The Pile, Eleuther's corpus of web text.



Initial release: 2021-03-21

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 7B, 40B 1.3B, 2.7B