# TII — Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here

- Company: TII (tii.ae)
- Announced: 2023-09-06T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://falcon-lm.github.io/blog/falcon-180b/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18420-spread-your-wings-falcon-180b-is-here
- Subject: Falcon LLM
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Falcon 180B, Falcon 40B
- License: restrictive conditions, excluding any 'hosting use'

TII released Falcon 180B, an open-access language model with 180 billion parameters trained on 3.5 trillion tokens. It achieves state-of-the-art results on natural language tasks, outperforming Llama 2 70B and GPT-3.5 on MMLU, and is on par with PaLM 2-Large on several benchmarks. The model is available on HuggingFace Hub as base and chat versions, with commercial use allowed under restrictive conditions excluding hosting use.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://falcon-lm.github.io/blog/falcon-180b/:

> Falcon 180B sets a new state-of-the-art for open models. It is the largest openly available language model, with 180 billion parameters, and was trained on a massive 3.5 trillion tokens using TII's RefinedWeb dataset.

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