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Falcon-180B vs GPT-3.5 (davinci-002)

Technology Innovation Institute
Falcon-180B
September 2023
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OpenAI
GPT-3.5 (davinci-002)
March 2022
3.8×10²⁴Training compute (FLOP)2.6×10²⁴
$11MTraining cost$5M

Falcon-180B (Technology Innovation Institute) and GPT-3.5 (davinci-002) (OpenAI) are both frontier AI models. Falcon-180B was published in September 2023 and GPT-3.5 (davinci-002) in March 2022.

Falcon-180B was trained on 3.8×10²⁴ FLOP, about 1.5x the compute of GPT-3.5 (davinci-002) at 2.6×10²⁴ FLOP. Training compute is the closest available proxy for how much was invested in a model, though it says nothing on its own about how well that compute was spent.

These two models share no benchmark on which both have been scored, so no direct performance comparison is possible here. The specification table below is a comparison of inputs, not of results.

Specifications
Technology Innovation Institute
Organization
OpenAI
Sep 6, 2023
Published
Mar 15, 2022
3.8×10²⁴ FLOP
Training compute1.5x
2.6×10²⁴ FLOP
180B
Parameters
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3.5T
Dataset size
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NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Training hardware
NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
4,096
Chips used
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4,320 h
Training time
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$11M
Training cost (2023 USD)2.2x
$5M
3.3 MW
Training power draw
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Open weights (restricted use)
Accessibility
API access
Yes
Open weights
No
United Arab Emirates
Country
United States
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