Falcon models by TII
Shares rank 37 of 39 open-weight language models by recommenders
Free open-weights language models from TII that people call credible and competitive, though one critic says they are not competitive with leading models.
Free open-weights language models from TII that people call credible and competitive, though one critic says they are not competitive with leading models.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Credible, competitive open-weights models
“one of the first commercially-licensable open-weights models genuinely competitive with GPT-3.5”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)” “very credible Falcon models”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “India, UAE partner on AI sovereignty to bypass Google, Microsoft” “has a few noteworthy models”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Mistral Medium 3.5”
Other open-weight language models people recommend
The four most recommended other open-weight language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 1,173 | 426 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo32 owners | Approved |
| Z.ai GLM | 1,043 | 384 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo52 owners | Approved |
| Kimi | 931 | 359 | 72% | 13 | 1 mo26 owners | Approved |
| Gemma 4 | 713 | 249 | 74% | 13 | 1 mo14 owners | Approved |
| Falcon models by TIIThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Ruby + Falcon is 2X faster than Python Async”
“Throwing cheap rockets into the air until they don't explode worked fine for Falcon”
“Whomever designed that algorithm used the biggest footgun ever.”
“very credible Falcon models”
“Both Falcon and Starlink are quite major improvements over previous status quo.”
“They're nowhere near competitive.”
“has a few noteworthy models”
“one of the first commercially-licensable open-weights models genuinely competitive with GPT-3.5”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.