CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes Llama 3.1 405B will close the gap with competing models.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes Llama 3.1 405B will close the gap with competing models.
Tech giant Meta this week released the latest generation of its large language model, Llama 3.1 405B, an open-source model it says is on par with proprietary LLM competitors like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Llama is what powers the Meta AI assistant. As of Tuesday, Llama 3.1 405B is accessible via the assistant you run into on WhatsApp (which is owned by Meta) and on the Meta.ai site. Though you can also use Meta AI on Instagram and Facebook, it wasn’t immediately clear if the latest model is available on those platforms as well. A spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Meta’s first version of Llama was released in February 2023, but even CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that early versions of Llama lagged behind their peers.
« Last year, Llama 2 was only comparable to an older generation of models behind the frontier », he wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.
Large language models are the technology behind generative AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Meta AI. They’re trained on massive data sets to learn how we use language so they can generate their own unique content that sounds at least plausibly human.
In addition to now having access to Llama 3.
