Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Palm 2

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Palm 2 Google

30.0

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 4 categories and Palm 2 in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Falcon-180B leads 25.2 to 20.9.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Palm 2 specifications
Falcon-180BPalm 2
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.230.0
Released2023-09-06—
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1610

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Coding—994

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Hard Prompts10071005
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Math—1049
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Palm 2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Non-English1000916
LMArena Chinese—887

Instruction Following Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Instruction Following10471010

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Longer Query—1010

Writing & Preference Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPalm 2
LMArena Text10541027
LMArena Creative Writing1089991
LMArena Multi-Turn1013994

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Palm 2?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

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

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