Meta announces Llama 3, launches dedicated AI web portal

Meta announced the motorboat of Llama 3, the latest mentation of its ample connection exemplary (LLM), connected April 18, describing it arsenic a “major leap implicit Llama 2.”

The institution said it has initially released the archetypal 2 models of the existent version, featuring 8B and 70B parameters, with upcoming models slated to diagnostic 400B parameters.

Meta emphasized Llama 3  was trained with a “large, high-quality grooming dataset” featuring implicit 15 trillion tokens, 7x larger than Llama 2 and featuring 4x much code. Llama 3 besides features filtering techniques, including NSFW filters, to guarantee information quality.

LLama 3 outperforms Llama 2 and competing models specified arsenic Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet, Mistral Medium, and OpenAI’s Chat GPT-3.5 much than fractional the clip crossed 12 usage cases.

The archetypal releases of Llama 3 are text-based models. However, aboriginal releases volition beryllium multilingual and multimodal. They volition besides diagnostic longer discourse and show amended show successful reasoning and coding, which Meta described arsenic “core LLM capabilities.”

The institution plans to deploy Llama 3 connected each large unreality providers, exemplary API providers, and different services. It plans to motorboat the merchandise “everywhere.”

Broader idiosyncratic access

Llama 3 is aimed astatine developers, but Meta has also launched caller ways for extremity users to entree AI services successful the US and much than 12 different countries.

One caller summation is simply a dedicated website called Meta AI, wherever users tin entree AI-powered penning assistance, trivia games, simulated occupation interviews, and homework help.

Meta has besides integrated Meta AI with each its products, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Furthermore, the institution offers the work via Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses successful the US and plans to widen it to its Meta Quest VR headset.

In an announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said:

“We judge that Meta AI is present the astir intelligent AI adjunct that you tin freely use.”

News of Meta’s expanded AI products comes soon aft upgrades to competing services. ChatGPT upgraded to GPT-4 Turbo connected April 11, portion Microsoft Copilot upgraded to GPT-4 Turbo starting successful March, advancing the contention betwixt consumer-oriented AI services.

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