Everything you need to know about Meta's Llama 3

What is Llama 3?

Llama 3 is the latest Open Source Large Language Model developed by Meta. Llama 3 sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks.

What are the Llama 3 new models?

Meta launched 2 models Llama 3 8B & 70B parameters. Meta mentioned they are currently training a 400B+ parameter model (opens in a new tab)

Models comparison (Image Credits: Meta (opens in a new tab))

Which Llama 3 models outperforms other popular AI models?

Llama 3 models 8B & 70B outperforms Gemma 7B (opens in a new tab), Mistral 7B (opens in a new tab), Gemini Pro 1.0 (opens in a new tab) and Mixtral 8x22B (opens in a new tab) on most of the common evaluation benchmarks for AI systems

Llama 3 comparison with other models (Image Credits: Meta (opens in a new tab))

Llama 3 excels at language nuances, contextual understanding, and complex tasks such as translation and dialogue generation.

It is also capable of handling multi-step tasks, and the refined post-training processes have significantly lowered false refusal rates, improved response alignment, and boosted diversity in model answers.

Additionally, Llama 3 has improved capabilities in areas such as reasoning, code generation, and instruction following.

Llama 3 comparison with other models on Human Evaluation (Image Credits: Meta (opens in a new tab))

How much Llama 3 models costs?

Meta Llama 3 is an openly available (opens in a new tab) large language model (LLM).

Llama 3 models can be downloaded and used at no cost, Meta didn't mentioned anything about allowing people to use Llama 3 via Meta API yet..

How to use Llama 3 models?

You have to download and use the Llama 3 models by running it on your local machine or host it on the cloud.

You can download Llama 3 8B & 70B models from Ollama (opens in a new tab)

The Open source software AnythingLLM (opens in a new tab) allows people to download and run Llama 3 models locally, so if you are a non-tech person then you can use Llama 3 models on AnythingLLM without any coding knowledge

What's coming next from Meta?

Meta mentioned they are currently trainning 400B+ Models and will release new models in the upcoming months.

Llama 3 400B+ Models (Image Credits: Meta (opens in a new tab))

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Summary

Llama 3 is the latest Large Language Model developed by Meta which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Meta launched 2 models Llama 3 8B & 70B parameters and mentioned about releasing 400B+ models in the next few months