Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 2 categories and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct specifications
Falcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.229.7
Released2023-09-062024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1619

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—29.6%
LMArena Coding—1039
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10071028
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Math—1089
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Expert—984
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Non-English10001000
LMArena Chinese—1016
LMArena French—1039
LMArena German—1006
LMArena Japanese—899
LMArena Korean—856
LMArena Russian—1004
LMArena Spanish—1059

Instruction Following Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10471023

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—996

Writing & Preference Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Text10541050
LMArena Creative Writing10891024
LMArena Multi-Turn1013989

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.

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