Falcon 40 Source — Code Exclusive

Suddenly, the mystery became clear. The package was sent by the original creators of Falcon 4.0, who had been working on the project years ago. They had entrusted John and his team with their life's work, and now it was up to them to carry on the legacy.

First, a refresher. Falcon 40B (40 billion parameters) was released in 2023 as a shot across the bow of OpenAI. At the time, it topped the Open LLM Leaderboard, beating LLaMA, StableLM, and even GPT-3.5 on certain reasoning benchmarks. Its claim to fame was —a massive, meticulously filtered web datasetthat the TII claimed was superior to Common Crawl. falcon 40 source code exclusive

While the code leaked, it was never "open-sourced" in the traditional sense (like the Apache 2.0 license used by the unrelated Falcon LLM). The copyright is still proprietary, and today it is held by MicroProse. Current players are still required to own a legal copy of the original Falcon 4.0 to use the BMS mod. Suddenly, the mystery became clear

: In May 2023, MicroProse officially recognized and supported the Falcon BMS project, establishing a perpetual licensing agreement. User Requirements First, a refresher