Daily Digest: ChatGPT killer

PLUS: Llama 3 models and Meta's AI chatbot

April 19, 2024

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Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

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  1. A recap of new courses and tutorials released this week: Our “Learn how to use ChatGPT” course is live! plus these 3 tutorials:

    1. Using AI to analyse social media engagement metrics

    2. Creating sales meeting agendas

    3. Build a GPT to generate new ideas from past content

  2. Meta is bringing Llama 3 into the world. It is starting with open-sourcing two variants of Llama 3 models and an upgraded version of Meta AI. These two variants (8B and 70B parameters) blow the earlier models from Meta out of the water. A larger model with 400B+ parameters is still in training.🍿Our summary of the Llama 3 models (also below)

  3. These models also power the upgraded Meta AI. Meta AI is Zuck’s answer to ChatGPT - An intelligent AI assistant that’s now on all of Meta’s apps—Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp and even on the web as “meta.ai”. Zuck claims that Meta AI is the most intelligent free chatbot available publically.🍿Our summary on Meta AI, the chatbot (also below)

  4. Listen to Mark Zuckerberg talk about these models and Meta AI with Dwarkesh and Roberto.

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Meta is bringing Llama 3 into the world. It is starting with open-sourcing two variants of Llama 3 models and an upgraded version of Meta AI. These two variants (8B and 70B parameters) blow the earlier models from Meta out of the water. A larger model with 400B+ parameters is still in training. Zuck claims that Meta AI is the most intelligent free chatbot available publically.

What is going on here?

Meta has released the first two public variants of Llama 3, their powerful new large language model (LLM).

What does this mean?

Llama 3 is the next generation of AI models from Meta. Previous Llama models ranged from 7B to 70B parameters in size and were a few of the leading open-source AI models.

But Zuck has switched the gears this time around. Llama 3 models are not just the best among open-source, they are giving closed-source models a run for their money too.

[This post covers Llama 3 models, read about Meta AI here.]

Here are some benchmarks for the 8B and 70B models from the Llama 3 family:

To give a sense of improvement beyond the numbers:

  • Llama 3’s 8B version is now almost as powerful as Llama 2’s largest 70B model.

  • Llama 3’s 70B version beats the models behind free versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude while inching towards the paid ones too.

One technical sauce that Meta has shared for this success is training small models on too much data. Meta trained these kiddos on 15 trillion text-tokens, where the optimal amount is around 200 billion-ish. And they kept learning. Now, Meta had to pull the plug because at some point you gotta let the models out in the world to see how people use it and prepare for the next training run.

But this is not it. Meta is still training a 400B beast. Meta claims it’ll likely be at the level of Claude Opus (#2 in all models as of now) based on their early testing. And when it completes training this. most likely Llama 3 405B would be open-source as well. Listen to Mark talk about these models with Dwarkesh and Roberto.

Why should I care?

Meta has made this progress in a very short time catching up to OpenAI and other AI labs, and open-sourcing them just makes it even better. Prior to Llama models, no one thought a 7B model could run on a Macbook. With the Llama 3 release, I can see hackers compressing the model to run on even an iPhone in less than 24 hours.

Llama 3 models are also smarter across the board. So now builders can build smart apps that run on a local machine and don't need to compromise heavily on the intelligence.

If you’re building anything cool with Llama 3 models, tag me on Twitter/X @bentossell. I’d love to see it.

QUICK BITES

There’s a new chatbot in the world folks, and this might beat everyone in terms of distribution. I’m talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to ChatGPT - Meta AI. An intelligent AI assistant that’s now on all of Meta’s apps—Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp and even on the web as “meta.ai”.

What is going on here?

Zuck claims that Meta AI is the most intelligent free chatbot available publically.

What does this mean?

Meta AI has been there for a while now, but it was hidden under the wraps for most folks. Zuckerberg is now front-running this AI chatbot betting on the upgrade from new Llama 3 models (Read more about them here).

ChatGPT is great but it’s limited by the web app. Zuck’s answer is: put Meta AI everywhere.

  • In the search bar of Instagram and Facebook. Search and Meta AI replies.

  • In chats on Whatsapp, Instagram, etc. Chat with Meta AI alone or bing it into your messages with your friends or group chats.

  • A special website: meta.ai. Compete for serious AI use with ChatGPT and Gemini.

Meta AI is also filled with features that are suitable for social interactions. One of those is images. It generates images almost in real-time, as you’re typing from all these Meta apps and sharing them without leaving your chats. It can also animate still images, no more searching for GIFs I guess.

Why should I care?

We can agree that Mark Zuckerberg imagines how social interactions will evolve years ahead. He’s going all-in on Meta AI with his vision of social apps at the centre of it.

Meta AI can be your “online friend”, a customer support rep for small creators and businesses on Meta apps, and an everpresent buddy in group chats.

Meta AI is rolling out in more countries slowly and I just can’t imagine the impact at Meta’s scale i.e. billions of users. Share anything you find interesting with Meta AI with me on Twitter/X @bentossell.

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