10X AI (Issue #18): Falcon-180B, Chirp v1, AI Video Tools, and a Trippy Focus Group

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Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.

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Here are this week’s AI developments.

1. Falcon-180B nudges out Llama 2

Another week, another benchmark-breaking LLM.

This time, it’s the Falcon-180B from Technology Innovation Institute (TII).

It’s now the largest openly available language model (180 billion parameters) and is the highest-scoring pre-trained LLM on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard.

Falcon-180B narrowly beats Meta’s recent Llama-2 across most LLM benchmarks.

You’ll want to untick “fine-tuned,” “instruction-tuned,” and “RL-tuned” model filters to see the apples-to-apples comparison:

There you go: