Llama models now power a range of meta products, including ai assistants across facebook, instagram, and whatsapp They have been downloaded over 600 million times on sites like hugging face. Looking ahead, meta plans to launch several new llama models, including those with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities Zuckerberg has hinted at ‘agentic’ features, suggesting the ai could soon perform tasks autonomously. But in hindsight, the release of llama 2 marked a crucial crossroads for meta and zuckerberg—the beginning of a remarkable comeback, all thanks to tech named after a furry camelid. Meta’s large language model and ai assistant are getting upgrades
On thursday, the company released the first models of llama 3 in two sizes, 8b and 70b parameters. When meta released llama 3.1, mark zuckerberg extolled the virtues of open source ai, calling it the path forward. he also talked about the steps meta is taking to make open source ai the.
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