Meta releases Llama 3 and claims it's one of the best open models available

Meta has unveiled its latest advancements in the realm of generative AI with the release of Llama 3.

The new models, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, boast significant enhancements over their predecessors, marking a great leap in performance and capability. With 8 billion and 70 billion parameters respectively, these models are among the most powerful open source generative AI models currently available.

The company envisions further developments for Llama 3, aiming to make it multilingual and multimodal while enhancing core capabilities such as reasoning and coding.