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Falcon models: Versions, specs, GPU requirements & hosting
TII Falcon preserves a historically important open-weight language-model line for reference deployments and compatibility planning.
Overview and history
Falcon is an official Technology Innovation Institute model family represented here through independently verified release, checkpoint, license, runtime and hardware evidence. TII Falcon preserves a historically important open-weight language-model line for reference deployments and compatibility planning. Current public releases are grouped by the General, Reasoning tracks so sibling sizes and specialist branches are not presented as false chronological generations.
FusionPointAI currently tracks 2 certified public Falcon releases. The catalogue preserves release dates and evaluates Current, Recent, Previous and Legacy status within each model track rather than by database insertion order.
Established open-weight lineage
Reference deployment coverage
Broad framework compatibility
Architecture and model range
The verified public range spans 7.6B to 34B total parameters and context windows up to 262,144 tokens. Each release states whether it is dense or mixture-of-experts and records active parameters separately when the official source publishes them.
Public releases2
Model tracks2
Current generationFalcon-H1R 7B FP8
Last verified2026-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Generations, tracks and variants
General
Falcon-H1
Current generationReasoning
Falcon-H1R
Current generationDeployment ecosystem
Choose a specific Falcon release and certified checkpoint before sizing hardware. FusionPointAI rejects unknown runtime configurations, calculates resident memory from total model weights, then distinguishes globally compatible GPUs from currently rentable inventory.
Validate the exact checkpoint license, runtime version, precision kernel, context length, concurrency and multi-GPU topology. Active MoE parameters affect compute, but resident model memory continues to use total stored weights.
Common use cases
Legacy workload migration
Controlled evaluation
Compatibility testing
License overview
Licenses are certified per release, not inferred from the provider. Review the release page before commercial deployment because terms can differ between generations and variants.
Commercial-use status is a source-backed catalogue classification, not legal advice. Follow the linked official license and attribution requirements.
Release timeline
tii/falcon/falcon-h1r-7b-fp8 @ edca4b7d5330a3904e3eb7facdce0ae6f5dba76d47e366be0f35584d47a6d3c4
Frequently asked questions
Which Falcon release is current?
Current releases are Falcon-H1 34B, Falcon-H1R 7B FP8, evaluated within their respective tracks.
Can Falcon be self-hosted?
Only releases with a verified official checkpoint and supported runtime configuration are presented as deployable.
Which GPU should run Falcon?
GPU selection depends on the exact variant, checkpoint precision, context length and concurrency; use the release hardware recommendations rather than the family name alone.
Official references
Last verified: 2026-08-26