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The Best Falcon 40B Alternatives in 2026

24 alternatives0 free · 16 open source

Looking for something like Falcon 40B? Here are 24 alternatives, ranked by how closely they match it on purpose, features and platforms. Of these, 16 are open source.

About Falcon 40Bhuggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b-instruct
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Falcon-40B-Instruct is a 40B-parameter causal decoder-only model built by TII based on Falcon-40B and fine-tuned on a mixture of Baize.

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1Bloom —Not statedWeb
2WizardLM —Not stated—
3Gaussian Mixture Model —Yes—
4DeepSeek-VL2 —Yes—
5xTuring —Yes—
6Falcon LLM —Not statedWeb
7NuPIC —Yes—
8Awesome-Code-LLM —Yes—
9mbzuai-oryx/MobiLlama —Yes—
10Janus / Janus-Pro —Yes—
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Bloom

huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/bloom
Also covers artificial intelligence, ml research, and text generation

Explore BLOOM, a large language model project, through its model page and documentation on Hugging Face.

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NuPIC

github.com/numenta/nupicOpen source
Also covers artificial intelligence and ml research · same kind of open-source project

NuPIC implements Hierarchical Temporal Memory, a model of intelligence based on neocortical theory.

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BELLE

github.com/LianjiaTech/BELLEOpen source
Also covers ml research · same kind of open-source project

The BELLE project provides an open-source Chinese-language conversational model.

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What is the best alternative to Falcon 40B?
Based on features, tags and platforms, the closest alternatives to Falcon 40B are Bloom, WizardLM, and Gaussian Mixture Model.
Are there open-source alternatives to Falcon 40B?
Yes: Gaussian Mixture Model, DeepSeek-VL2, xTuring, and NuPIC.

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