Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Gemma 2 2b IT

Gemma 2 2b IT has enough public results to be ranked (#248); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Falcon-40B and Gemma 2 2b IT specifications
Falcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—33.1
Released2023-03-15—
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1217

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#273)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Coding—1112

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 21.4 (#224)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts—1113
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.6 (#212)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Math—1135
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.9 (#231)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Expert—1096
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#257)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Non-English—1121
LMArena Chinese—1132
LMArena French—1157
LMArena German—1114
LMArena Japanese—1083
LMArena Korean—1055
LMArena Russian—1118
LMArena Spanish—1140

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 57.8 (#263)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following—1118

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.3 (#250)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query—1130

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.5 (#263)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Text—1156
LMArena Creative Writing—1147
LMArena Multi-Turn—1118

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Gemma 2 2b IT?

Gemma 2 2b IT has enough public results to be ranked (#248); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemma 2 2b IT share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 2b IT has 17.

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