Falcon-40B Description
Falcon-40B is a 40B parameter causal decoder model, built by TII. It was trained on 1,000B tokens from RefinedWeb enhanced by curated corpora. It is available under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Why use Falcon-40B
Falcon-40B is the best open source model available. Falcon-40B outperforms LLaMA, StableLM, RedPajama, MPT, etc. OpenLLM Leaderboard.
It has an architecture optimized for inference with FlashAttention, multiquery and multiquery.
It is available under an Apache 2.0 license that allows commercial use without any restrictions or royalties.
This is a raw model that should be finetuned to fit most uses. If you're looking for a model that can take generic instructions in chat format, we suggest Falcon-40B Instruct.