Falcon-180B vs Grok-2

Falcon-180B (Technology Innovation Institute) and Grok-2 (xAI) are both frontier AI models. Falcon-180B was published in September 2023 and Grok-2 in August 2024.

Grok-2 was trained on 3×10²⁵ FLOP, about 7.9x the compute of Falcon-180B at 3.8×10²⁴ 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.

Grok-2 wins the single benchmark both were scored on. Benchmark counts are a crude scoreboard — the evaluations differ wildly in what they measure and in how saturated they are — so the per-benchmark table below matters more than the tally.