Fortune April 24, 2024
With the announcement of its new Llama 3 model, Meta is getting ready to put artificial intelligence across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. It’s a move that could eventually put the model in the hands of more than 3 billion daily users. This unprecedented flow of human-AI interaction data could help Meta pull ahead in the AI race.
For the past year, OpenAI’s GPT-4 has been the dominant large language model. The LLM’s popularity dwarfs that of rival offerings from Google, Meta, and Mistral, but the gap in model quality is getting smaller and smaller. After Cohere’s Command R+, Llama 3 is the second openly available model this month to surpass the original GPT-4 in the popular LMSYS Chatbot Arena. In...