Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet

Posted under: AI technologies
Date: 2024-07-26
Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet

Back in April, Meta teased that it was working on a first for the AI industry: an open-source model with performance that matched the best private models from companies like OpenAI. Today, that model has arrived. Meta is releasing Llama 3.1, the largest-ever open-source AI model, which the company claims outperforms GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks. Llama 3.1 is significantly more complex with the largest version having 405 billion parameters and was trained with over 16,000 of Nvidia’s ultra-expensive H100 GPUs.

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