Company
Date Published
Author
Sid Shanker
Word count
794
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Falcon-40B is an impressive large language model (LLM) released by Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Dubai, which has made it to the top of the OpenLLM leaderboard. It can be used commercially but requires serious hardware to run, such as two A100 GPUs, making it challenging for developers to deploy and use it. However, a Truss model package is available that makes it easier to deploy Falcon-40B on Baseten, a model serving infrastructure, allowing users to quickly deploy the model and access its power, including logging, monitoring, and autoscaling. The model's performance is comparable to GPT-3.5, and it has been successfully deployed and tested with example prompts and responses that showcase its capabilities.