# Falcon models by TII

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Falcon models by TII and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-weights language models from TII that people call credible and competitive, though one critic says they are not competitive with leading models.

## Why people recommend it

- Credible, competitive open-weights models (3 comments): "one of the first commercially-licensable open-weights models genuinely competitive with GPT-3.5" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136127)) "very credible Falcon models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541418)) "has a few noteworthy models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950967))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Qwen 3.8 27B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-3-8-27b.md): 1173 recommend
- [Z.ai GLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/glm-5-2.md): 1043 recommend
- [Kimi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kimi-k3.md): 931 recommend
- [Gemma 4](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemma-4.md): 713 recommend
- [Qwen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen.md): 474 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Falcon models by TII", https://hackerapproved.com/p/falcon/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).