Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 2 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Falcon-180B leads 19.1 to 14.8.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Falcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.229.3
Released2023-09-062024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1632

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
LMArena Coding—1101

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10071100
HellaSwag89%77%
WinoGrande87.1%81.5%
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
LAMBADA79.8%—
LiveBench—24%
PIQA84.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math—17.6%
LMArena Math—1151
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%90.7%
MMLU70.6%75.7%
OpenBookQA64.2%88%
LMArena Expert—1067
BoolQ89%—
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English10001058
LMArena Chinese—1061
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Russian—1111
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10471087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1088

Writing & Preference Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text10541110
LMArena Creative Writing10891083
LMArena Multi-Turn10131068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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