Falcon 2: An 11B parameter pretrained language model and VLM, trained on over 5000B tokens and 11 languages

Falcon 2 is a pretrained language model and vision-language model (VLM) featuring 11 billion parameters, trained on over 5 trillion tokens across 11 languages. It incorporates architectural advancements that enhance its performance on various NLP and multimodal tasks. This release is significant for practitioners as it provides a robust foundation for developing applications in multilingual and multimodal environments, leveraging extensive training data for improved generalization.