Claude 2 (Anthropic) and Falcon-180B (Technology Innovation Institute) are both frontier AI models. Claude 2 was published in July 2023 and Falcon-180B in September 2023.
Claude 2 was trained on 3.9 x 10^24 FLOP, essentially the same compute as 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.
Claude 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.
| Field | Claude 2 | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Published | Jul 11, 2023 | Sep 6, 2023 |
| Training compute | 3.9 x 10^24 FLOP | 3.8 x 10^24 FLOP |
| Parameters | — | 180B |
| Dataset size | — | 3.5T |
| Training hardware | — | NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB |
| Chips used | — | 4,096 |
| Training time | — | 4.3K h |
| Training cost (2023 USD) | $5M | $11M |
| Training power draw | — | 3.3 MW |
| Accessibility | API access | Open weights (restricted use) |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| Country | United States | United Arab Emirates |
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index(ECI Score) | 119.6 | 111.9 |
