Falcon LLM

Falcon is a series of open-source large language models developed by TII (Technology Innovation Institute), with sizes ranging from small (1B) to massive (180B+ parameters). Starting with Falcon 40B and expanding to Falcon 2, Falcon 3, Falcon-H1, Falcon Arabic, Falcon 180B, and the innovative Falcon Mamba variants, these models handle text, images, video, and audio—all under the TII Falcon License 2.0.As an open-source counterpart to commercial LLMs like GPT‑4, Claude, and Gemma, Falcon is fully accessible with published weights, reproducible builds, and permissive licensing (Apache-based), enabling widespread adoption and on‑prem deployment .

Key features include:

• Scalable model sizes: Covers 1B, 3B, 7B, 11B, 40B, 180B+ parameter models
• Multimodal support: Capable of processing text, images, video, and audio (e.g., Falcon 3 Vision/Video/Audio)
• Long context windows: Up to 128K tokens for XXL models
• Efficient architectures: FLASH attention, Mamba variants delivering speed & reduced memory usage
• Fully open-source: All weights, checkpoints, and training pipelines released under transparent license with no closed components

Use cases include:

• Conversational AI and chatbot development
• Document summarization and analysis
• Multilingual and multimodal applications
• Real-time audio/video captioning or description
• Lightweight inference on laptops or edge devices (via quantized models)