Using Falcon 40B on Replicate API
Implementation guide · Falcon · Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the Replicate API SDK or REST API to call
falcon-40b— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
pip install replicateREPLICATE_API_TOKENfalcon-40bReplicate uses "owner/model-name" format (e.g. "meta/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct") for the latest version, or "owner/model-name:version-sha" to pin to a specific version. The REST endpoint splits owner and model-name into the path: /v1/models/{owner}/{model-name}/predictions.
import replicate
# reads REPLICATE_API_TOKEN from env
# falcon-40b format: "owner/model-name" (latest version) or "owner/model-name:version-hash"
output = replicate.run(
"falcon-40b",
input={"prompt": "Hello"}
)
# Output is a list or generator depending on the model
print("".join(output))About Replicate API
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Pricing on Replicate API
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.65 |
| Output tokens | $2.75 |
Capabilities
About Falcon 40B
Falcon 40B is a leading open-source large language model developed by the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, featuring a causal decoder-only architecture with 40 billion parameters. It stands out with its use of rotary positional embeddings, multi-query attention, and FlashAttention, enhancing its contextual understanding and processing efficiency. Trained on 1 trillion tokens using the enriched RefinedWeb dataset, Falcon 40B excels in various natural language processing tasks, ranging from text generation to language translation and question answering. It supports multiple languages and is open under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting both research and commercial use. The model efficiently utilizes standard hardware, requiring around 85-100 GB of memory for inference, setting a benchmark for performance and scalability in its category.