tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct
tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct is a tiiuae record on this register. The Hugging Face model API lists the pipeline tag as text-generation. The safetensors index gives an exact parameter count of 7,217,189,760. The listed licence is apache-2.0. The Hub repository was created on 25 Apr 2023, which is the release date this register uses.
Primary source: the Hugging Face model card for tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct. Fields below come from that card, the Hub model API, and the repository’s own config.json when those files exist. A field we cannot source is omitted rather than guessed.
| Organisation | tiiuae |
|---|---|
| ReleasedRepo creation date on Hugging Face | 25 Apr 2023 |
| Last modified | 12 Oct 2024 |
| ParametersExact, from the safetensors index | 7.2B 7,217,189,760 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 |
| Pipeline / taskpipeline_tag on the Hugging Face model API | text-generation |
| File formats | safetensors |
| Librarylibrary_name on the Hugging Face model API | transformers |
| Architecture | falcon |
| Layers | 32 |
| Vocabulary | 65,024 |
| DownloadsAt last check | 33.8k |
| Likes | 1k |
| Gated | No |
No context length is shown because max_position_embeddings was not readable from config.json.
How to run
Safetensors weights are on the Hugging Face repository. The parameter count on this page came from that index.
The Hugging Face model API lists the library as transformers.
Load it from huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct. This page does not add install steps that the Hub files do not state.
Agent capabilities
Derived from the model’s own chat template, with the match counts behind each finding.
- ○Tool callingno evidence in template
- ○Reasoning / thinkingno evidence in template
- ●System prompt1 match in template
- ○Image inputno evidence in template
- ○Video inputno evidence in template
- ○Audio inputno evidence in template
Questions this record can answer
- When was falcon-7b-instruct released?
- The Hugging Face repository was created on 25 Apr 2023, which is the date this register uses.
- How many parameters does falcon-7b-instruct have?
- The safetensors index gives 7,217,189,760 parameters, shown here as 7.2B. That figure is exact, not rounded.
- What licence is falcon-7b-instruct under?
- The Hub card lists apache-2.0.
- Is falcon-7b-instruct gated?
- No. The Hugging Face model API does not mark this repository as gated.
- Does the falcon-7b-instruct chat template show tool calling?
- The chat template was read and no tool-calling evidence was found.
Where each field came from
- Hugging Face model API — releasedAt, lastModified, downloads, likes, task, license, gated, parameters, libraryName, formats. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
- config.json — layers, vocabSize, architecture. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
- chat template — capabilities. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
First recorded 24 Sept 2026, last checked 18 Oct 2026. This record is compiled automatically from the sources above. Where a field is blank, we could not source it and have not guessed. Canonical repository: huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct.