Meta launches ‘most capable openly available LLM to date,’ rivaling GPT and Claude

Llama-3 may be the company’s most ambitious artificial intelligence project yet.

Meta raised the artificial intelligence (AI) bar on April 18 by announcing 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 lies in the global AI model hierarchy:

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