Falcon-40B: A Fully OpenSourced Foundation LLM

Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.

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Falcon-40B is a foundation model that is not tuned for a particular purpose. It is a “base” model that could be fine-tuned to whatever purpose you would like to finetune it for. Recently topped HuggingFace’s LLM leaderboard https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard

Source: Huggingface

This leaderboard evaluates 4 popular benchmarks.

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