Meta has announced a new series of AI research grants, based on creative and novel uses of its Llama 3.1 model, as it looks to maximize the potential of AI in varying capacities. As per Meta: “We’re excited to announce applications are open for the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants. We’re seeking proposals that employ the [...]read moreMeta Announces Llama Impact Grants to Further AI Development
New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open-source, helping them stand apart from competing offerings from OpenAI and other well-known names. Meta’s new Llama models have differently sized underlying datasets, with the Llama [...]read moreWatch: Meta’s new Llama 3 models give open-source AI a boost
Llama 3 currently features two model weights, with 8B and 70B parameters. (The B is for billions and represents how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands.) It only offers text-based responses so far, but Meta says these are “a major leap” over the previous version. Llama 3 showed more [...]read moreMeta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including Gemini
Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest large language model, Llama 3, and it is now running it in the search bar of its four major apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp) across multiple countries. Alongside this, the [...]read moreMeta adds its AI chatbot, powered by Llama 3, to the search bar across its apps
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, [...]read moreMeta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. Google’s annual enterprise-focused dev conference, Google Cloud Next, dominated the headlines — and we had plenty of coverage from the event. But it wasn’t the only thing afoot (see: the spectacular eclipse). Lorenzo wrote about how [...]read moreTesla drops prices, Meta confirms Llama 3 release, and Apple allows emulators in the App Store
At an event in London on Tuesday, Meta confirmed that it plans an initial release of Llama 3 — the next generation of its large language model used to power generative AI assistants — within the next month. This confirms a report published on Monday by The Information that Meta was getting close to launch. [...]read moreMeta confirms that its Llama 3 open-source LLM is coming in the next month