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Meta AI News: Week Ending 04/19/2024

April 19, 2024

Meta releases new AI assistant powered by Llama 3 model – The Verge –

Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now. Meta’s AI assistant is being put everywhere across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Meanwhile, the company’s next major AI model, Llama 3, has arrived.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24133808/meta-ai-assistant-llama-3-chatgpt-openai-rival

“Meta announces Megalodon Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length The quadratic complexity and weak length extrapolation of Transformers limits their ability to scale to long sequences, and while sub-quadratic solutions like linear attention and https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1780083267888107546

“My mind is blown. @GroqInc is serving LLaMA 3 at over 800 tokens per second! 800. Tokens. Per. Second. This unlocks so many incredible use-cases. It’s one thing to see my demo — it’s another thing entirely to experience it for yourself. Do yourself a favor and try it asap. https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1781355430914015482

“Meta is experimenting with a new program called “Creator AI”. It will allow popular influencers to use AI-powered chatbots to interact with IG followers. The AI would mimic the style of the influencer using previous posts, direct messages, comments, and audio as training data. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1780055958762278978

“The upcoming Llama-3-400B+ will mark the watershed moment that the community gains open-weight access to a GPT-4-class model. It will change the calculus for many research efforts and grassroot startups. I pulled the numbers on Claude 3 Opus, GPT-4-2024-04-09, and Gemini.… https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1781006672452038756

“Meta AI built into the search box of all $META products. 3B daily users, opening these apps multiple times a day, have access to LLAMA 3. What does this means for $GOOGL?” / X – https://twitter.com/SupBagholder/status/1781011855596531873

“Meta open source is by far the greatest threat and competitor to Google. If LLaMA 4/5 becomes default on devices with intelligence it disintermediates Google completely and they directly compete on advertising revenues. Defaults are super powerful & intents super $$s” / X – https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1781023767721828495

“Meta releasing near gpt-4 level models is really driving the price of tokens down because anyone can take the weights and optimize the runtime eg groq, togetherapi, fireworks etc. Definitely not good for OpenAI” / X – https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1781443464246559180

“Meta released their open source AI, Llama 3, today. As a key leader in LLMs, their models are often the most advanced open source ones out there. Based on benchmarks, the current model is not quite GPT-4 class, but their larger one (still training) will reach GPT-4 level. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1780994637085221226

“”Llama 3 is a very capable looking model release from Meta. Sticking to fundamentals, spending a lot of quality time on solid systems and data work, exploring the limits of long-training models. Also very excited for the 400B model, which could be the first GPT-4 grade open…” / X – https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1781033686852391125

“Congrats to @AIatMeta on Llama 3 release!! 🎉 https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1781028605709234613

OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning – https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-meta-new-ai-models-capable-reasoning

Llama 3 is not very censored · Ollama Blog – https://ollama.com/blog/llama-3-is-not-very-censored

Meta Llama 3 – https://llama.meta.com/llama3/
Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date – https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/

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