Meta releases Llama 3, claims it's among the best open models available

TechCrunch— Meta has released the latest entry in its Llama series of open generative AI models: Llama 3. Or, more accurately, the company has debuted two models in its new Llama 3 family, with the rest to come at an unspecified future date. Meta describes the new models — Llama 3 8B, which contains 8 billion parameters, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

MSPoweruser—Meta releases Llama 3, the most powerful open LLM model. Meta today announced the release of its next-generation large language model (LLM), Llama 3. According to standard benchmarks, LLama 3’s 8B and 70B parameter models are the most powerful model of its size which is available in the open for free. Meta claims that Llama 3 performs better than Claude Sonnet, Mistral Medium, and GPT-3.5. […]

Ars Technica—LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model. Zuckerberg says new AI model "was still learning" when Meta stopped training.

NextBigFuture.com—Meta Llama 3 70B Open Source Model Beats Claude 3 Sonnet. Llama 3 is Meta’s latest generation of models that has state-of-the art performance and efficiency for openly available LLMs. Meta AI is available online for free. The small 7B model beats Mistral 7B and Gemma 7B. The 70B beats Claude 3 Sonnet (closed source Anthropic model) and competes against Gemini Pro 1.5 (closed source model