Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs StarCoder 2 7B

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#254); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

36.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Falcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteNVIDIA
Noometry Index31.836.5
Released2023-09-062024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked167

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
HumanEval+—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index111.8992.92
WinoGrande87.1%57.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
GSM8K54.4%32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%38.7%
MMLU70.6%38.8%
BoolQ89%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#254); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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