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People are buzzing about today’s release of Meta’s new Llama 3.1 model. What’s notable is that this is Meta’s largest Llama model to date, with 405 billion parameters. (Parameters are the adjustable variables in a neural network, and give a rough sense of how large an AI model is.) And according to benchmark performance figures that conveniently leaked onto Reddit the day ahead of the official release, Llama 3.1 exceeds the capabilities of OpenAI’s latest and greatest model, GPT-4o, by a few percentage points across a number of measures, including some benchmarks designed to test reasoning.
