Falcon-180b illustrates how throwing compute at an LLM can result in unusually poor capabilities. Epoch’s estimate puts it close to Claude 2 in compute, yet it’s nowhere near as good. Then there’s the even more expensive PaLM 2, though since weights are not published, it’s possible that unlike with Falcon the issue is that only smaller, overly quantized, or incompetently tuned models are being served.
Falcon-180b illustrates how throwing compute at an LLM can result in unusually poor capabilities. Epoch’s estimate puts it close to Claude 2 in compute, yet it’s nowhere near as good. Then there’s the even more expensive PaLM 2, though since weights are not published, it’s possible that unlike with Falcon the issue is that only smaller, overly quantized, or incompetently tuned models are being served.