- Meta released the first two versions of its Llama 3 large-scale language model on Thursday.
- The technology powers MetaAI, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “the most intelligent AI assistant at our disposal.”
- Mehta says the new model improves inference and code generation, allowing for a more diverse range of responses.
Meta's large-scale language model and AI assistant have been upgraded.
The company released the first model of Llama 3 on Thursday in two sizes with parameters 8B and 70B. These are also integrated into the company's AI assistant, Meta AI.
“With this new model, we believe MetaAI is the most intelligent AI assistant at our disposal,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an Instagram post on Thursday.
Meta said in a blog post Thursday that its latest model has “significantly reduced false rejection rates, improved tuning, and increased model response diversity,” as well as advances in inference, code generation, and instructions. Ta.
“With Llama 3, we aimed to build the best open model on par with the best proprietary models available today,” the post reads. “This next generation of his Llama demonstrates cutting-edge performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and offers new features such as improved inference. We believe these are the best open source models in their class. I believe that.”
Although Meta bills Llama as open source, Llama 2 requires companies with more than 700 million monthly active users to request a license from the company to use Llama 2, which Meta claims Sometimes it is allowed and sometimes it is not.
In the near future, Meta hopes to “make Llama 3 multilingual and multimodal, enable longer contexts, and continue to improve overall performance across core LLM functions such as inference and coding,” the company said. said in a blog post.
So what does this change mean for meta-AI?
The AI assistant can help with tasks like making restaurant recommendations, planning trips, and making your emails sound more professional.
Meta AI's Imagine feature now produces sharper images faster, according to a press release issued Thursday. The image starts appearing as you type and changes “every few characters you type.”
Meta AI is available for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and more. on the browser. The company says multimodal Meta AI will also be coming to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses soon. It is available in English in more than a dozen countries outside the United States.
As for what happens next, Meta says it is still working on models with more than 400B of parameters in training.
“When you think about the major AI assistants people use today, I don’t think many people seriously think about Meta AI,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an article published Thursday in The told the Verge. “But I think this is the moment where we really start introducing it to a lot of people, and we expect it to become a pretty major product.”
Of course, Meta AI faces stiff competition from well-known AI assistants such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude.
