Mark Zuckerberg calls for open source AI as Meta releases Llama 3.1

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg voiced his support for “open source” AI as the industry’s “way forward” as he unveiled the company’s latest Llama AI model. Zuckerberg said the company is “taking the next step in making open source AI an industry standard” with the release of Llama 3.1, which he described as the first “cutting-edge open source AI model.” He drew parallels between the evolution of open source software Linux from its original closed-source Unix and the potential future of AI, suggesting that open source AI will become an industry standard. Touting the company’s latest AI product, Zuckerberg added that Llama 3 is competitive with state-of-the-art models and leads in some areas. The new model can hold conversations in multiple languages, write higher-quality computer code, and solve more complex mathematical problems. It also has 405 billion parameters, but still lags behind competitors like OpenAI’s GPT-4, which reportedly has 1 trillion parameters. (Cointelegraph)