Falcon-180B (Technology Innovation Institute) and Grok 3 (xAI) are both frontier AI models. Falcon-180B was published in September 2023 and Grok 3 in February 2025.
Grok 3 was trained on 3.5 x 10^26 FLOP, about 93.1x the compute of Falcon-180B at 3.8 x 10^24 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 3 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.
| Field | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Technology Innovation Institute | xAI |
| Published | Sep 6, 2023 | Feb 17, 2025 |
| Training compute | 3.8 x 10^24 FLOP | 3.5 x 10^26 FLOP |
| Parameters | 180B | 3T |
| Dataset size | 3.5T | — |
| Training hardware | NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB |
| Chips used | 4,096 | 80,000 |
| Training time | 4.3K h | 2.2K h |
| Training cost (2023 USD) | $11M | $218M |
| Training power draw | 3.3 MW | 109.9 MW |
| Accessibility | Open weights (restricted use) | API access |
| Open weights | Yes | No |
| Country | United Arab Emirates | United States |
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index(ECI Score) | 111.9 | 139 |
