Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Llama 2-34B

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Llama 2-34B specifications
Falcon-180BLlama 2-34B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index32.2—
Released2023-09-062023-07-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1610

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Category by category

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Llama 2-34B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-34B
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13105.2
PIQA84.9%81.9%
WinoGrande87.1%76.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
BIG-Bench Hard—44.1%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-34B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-34B
GSM8K54.4%42.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-34B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-34B
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%54.5%
BoolQ89%83.7%
MMLU70.6%62.6%
OpenBookQA64.2%58.2%
TriviaQA—84.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Llama 2-34B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-34B
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Llama 2-34B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-34B
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Llama 2-34B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BLlama 2-34B
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 2-34B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 2-34B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.

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