Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Llama 2-7B

Llama 2-7B has enough public results to be ranked (#317); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Llama 2-7B specifications
Falcon-40BLlama 2-7B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—29.1
Released2023-03-152023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1229

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding—1002

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%39.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index104.4599.06
HellaSwag85.3%77.2%
LAMBADA77.3%73.3%
PIQA83%78.8%
WinoGrande76.9%69.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1009

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
GSM8K33.8%16.7%
LMArena Math—1042

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%45.9%
BoolQ83.1%77.9%
MMLU56.9%45.8%
OpenBookQA56.6%58.6%
TriviaQA79.9%73.7%
LMArena Expert—1036

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English—973
LMArena Chinese—973
LMArena French—970
LMArena German—978
LMArena Russian—995
LMArena Spanish—1007

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following—1006

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query—999

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text—1053
LMArena Creative Writing—1033
LMArena Multi-Turn—1029

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 2-7B?

Llama 2-7B has enough public results to be ranked (#317); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 2-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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