Comment by dongobread

Their benchmark results seem roughly on par with Mistral 7B and Llama 3 8B, which hardly seems that great given the increase in model size.

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-11B

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B

https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/