Meta has announced a significant upgrade to its open-source generative AI assistant Meta AI. This new iteration, powered by the more robust Llama 3 large language model, promises to enhance the quality of AI-generated content significantly.
Llama 3 comes in two versions: 8B and 70B parameters. More parameters usually mean better outputs. Meta’s goal is to create an open-source model that can rival the proprietary giants in the AI landscape.
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By keeping these models open source, Meta invites collaboration and feedback from the community as they evolve.
Meta didn’t shy away from putting Llama 3 to the test. In benchmark evaluations, Llama 3 8B outperformed other open-source AIs like Mistral 7B and Gemma 7B (from Mistral and Google, respectively). Meanwhile, Llama 3 70B flexed its muscles against the new Google Gemini Pro 1.5 and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet. In Meta’s own human evaluation tests, Llama 3 70B emerged victorious against Claude Sonnet, Mistral Medium, and even OpenAI’s GPT 3.5.
Llama 3 is gearing up for deployment, and surprisingly, it’ll use fewer resources than its predecessor, Llama 2, despite having more parameters.
Meta says it’s also put all necessary safeguards in place. With Llama 3, they’ve adopted a “system-level approach” to responsible development and deployment. Humans and automations work together to weed out problematic responses and fine-tune the model to avoid undesirable outputs.
And what’s next? Meta is eyeing models with over 400 billion parameters. As they continue training, expect new capabilities: multimodality, multilingual conversations, extended context windows, and overall stronger performance.
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Meta AI is already available in English across the US on WhatsApp. It’s also expanding to more than a dozen countries, including Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Some lucky folks in India have also glimpsed Meta AI on WhatsApp, although access remains limited.
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