Meta’s aggressive push to make its AI assistant a ubiquitous presence in its apps continues to repay. Meta AI is on the verge of passing its subsequent main milestone, with “almost” 600 million month-to-month customers, Mark Zuckerberg shared in . Meta AI, which debuted final fall, handed again in October.
The replace got here alongside the discharge of Meta’s newest Llama 3.3 70B mannequin. In keeping with Meta, the newest textual content mannequin has “comparable efficiency to the Llama 3.1 405B mannequin,” however comes “at a fraction of the fee.” Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta posted a chart on X that confirmed Llama 3.3 scored increased on a number of benchmarks in contrast with Google’s Gemini Professional 1.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
Introducing Llama 3.3 – a brand new 70B mannequin that delivers the efficiency of our 405B mannequin however is simpler & extra cost-efficient to run. By leveraging the newest developments in post-training methods together with on-line choice optimization, this mannequin improves core efficiency at… pic.twitter.com/6oQ7b3Yuzc
— Ahmad Al-Dahle (@Ahmad_Al_Dahle) December 6, 2024
Zuckerberg additionally briefly teased the following main launch. “The following cease is Llama 4,” Zuckerberg stated in shared on Instagram, after noting that the three.3 launch was the “final huge AI replace of the yr.” Zuckerberg has to this point has been pretty tight-lipped about what’s in retailer for Llama 4, although he is supplied some hints. The CEO earlier this yr that the mannequin was being skilled on a cluster of greater than 100,000 H100s with an anticipated launch of one of many “smaller” Llama 4 fashions “someday early subsequent yr.”
