Claude 2 vs Falcon-180B

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 3.9×10²⁴ FLOP, essentially the same compute as 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.

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.