Hackathon Challenge
Develop an innovative application, tool, or interactive element leveraging the capabilities of Falcon LLMs. Excited to see where your creativity takes you!
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Falcon LLMs 24-hours Hackathon
Join us for a 24-hour hackathon centered around Falcon LLMs, a powerful language model. Collaborate, innovate, and compete to create impressive solutions.
How to get started with Falcon Models
Falcon LLMs is a 7B, 40B and 180B parameters causal decoder-only models built by TII and trained on 1,000B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. It is made available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Why use Falcon LLMs?
- It is the best open-source model currently available, outperforming LLaMA, StableLM, RedPajama, MPT, etc.
- Features an architecture optimized for inference, with FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022) and multiquery (Shazeer et al., 2019).
- Made available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing for commercial use without any royalties or restrictions.
Key Highlights
- Available under Apache 2.0 license
- Outperforms competitors like LLaMA, StableLM, RedPajama, MPT (see the OpenLLM Leaderboard)
- Optimized for inference with FlashAttention and multi query architecture
- Requires PyTorch 2.0 for use with transformers
Falcon Model Resources
- Falcon-180B DemoTry out Falcon-180B through the interactive demo to explore its capabilities hands-on.
- Falcon-40B Documentation: For detailed instructions, installation guides, and fine-tuning tips, refer to the comprehensive documentation.
- Falcon-7B Model: Check out 7B model and discover detailed instructions.
- Falcon RefinedWeb Dataset: Enhance your projects by using the Falcon RefinedWeb dataset, ideal for fine-tuning Falcon-40B.
Hackathon Preparation
Prepare effectively for the Falcon LLMs Hackathon with these three phases:
Get Ready
- Begin by delving into the Falcon models’ documentation to understand its capabilities. Ensure access to Falcon and relevant datasets. Finally, set up your development environment with the necessary software and hardware.
Start Hacking
- Plan your project, define objectives, and develop a strategic approach. Experiment with Falcon LLMs, exploring different tasks and referring to the documentation. If you use external data, integrate it seamlessly.
Showcase Your Work
- Prepare a project presentation highlighting Falcon models contribution. Engage with peers, share experiences, and provide feedback on other projects. Collaborative learning enriches the community's experience.
Community will choose the winner!
Review hackathon projects, and vote for your favorites, carefully following the rules. For the micro hackathons, your feedback decides the winner! 🏆
StartUp Opportunities
lablab.ai Community members who've submitted solutions during our Hackathons may be able to apply for partner startup accelerator programs, such as GAIA's and Slingshot.
Hackathon Details
Join lablab.ai for a 24-hour challenge to innovate and build with Falcon LLMs. Find all the relevant details below.
🗓️ Where and when
The hackathon will start on September 23st.
The hackathon will take place online on lablab.ai platform and lablab.ai Discord Server. Please register for both in order to participate. To participate click the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the page and read our Hackathon Guidelines and Getting Started Guide.
😅 What about teams?
If you don't have a team, don't worry! You can connect with other participants from all over the world on our dashboard or Discord server. We also recommend checking out our Discord server to find teammates and bounce around ideas. You can join the server here
🧠 Get prepared / Use Lablab.ai to Learn About AI
To get ready for the hackathon, visit our AI Tech pages and read up on all the available technologies. You can also check out our tutorials page for more information on how to use them. Get a head start on your project by using the resources on lablab.ai!
Event Schedule
- To be announced
Winner Submissions 🏆
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Submitted concepts, prototypes and pitches
Submissions from the teams participating in the Falcon LLMs 24-hours Hackathon event and making it to the end 👊
Teams: Falcon LLMs 24-hours Hackathon
Check out the roster and find teams to join
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