Llama-3 may be the company’s most ambitious artificial intelligence project yet.
Meta bellied up to the artificial intelligence (AI) bar today to announce that its newest large language model, Llama-3, is the “most capable,” and “best open source model” currently available.
The company’s statements surrounding the general availability of Llama-3 as well as a new standalone “Meta AI” portal, has the tech world abuzz with declarations that the current space leaders, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, finally have some stiff competition from the company formerly called Facebook.
A Meta blog post made no quibbles about the company’s position concerning where its Llama suite of LLMs now lie in the global AI model hierarchy: