The Falcon has landed in the Hugging Face ecosystem

look, Falcon landed on the Hub. It’s another example of models getting dumped online without a clear path to production infrastructure. It's available, which is the easy part, but getting that behemoth model running cost-effectively on our actual GPU cluster is the hard part. We're trading internal control for generalized access.

The ecosystem is growing, sure, but it's mostly just faster ways to share code and weights. Don't get dazzled by the model name; focus on the quantization and serving strategy. If we can't deploy it reliably and cheaply, it's just a glorified GitHub repo.