Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Granite 4.2 3b

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Falcon-40B and Granite 4.2 3b specifications
Falcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteIBM
Noometry Index—39.0
Released2023-03-15—
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1211

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 39.4 (#146)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Coding—1363

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 25.0 (#136)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Hard Prompts—1308
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.04—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 35.6 (#169)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Expert—1313
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 42.4 (#193)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Non-English—1268
LMArena Chinese—1268
LMArena Russian—1249

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 67.2 (#195)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Instruction Following—1271

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 39.3 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Longer Query—1293

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 47.9 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Text—1295
LMArena Creative Writing—1215
LMArena Multi-Turn—1293

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Granite 4.2 3b?

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Granite 4.2 3b share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.

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