Artificial intelligence has already had a big year with the release of GPT-4o from OpenAI, Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic and the Gemini 1.5 family from Google, but Meta’s release of a massive 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 is up there for the "most important" crown.
Meta released version 3.1 of its open-source Llama AI model family yesterday and quickly gained a reputation as one of the most powerful and useful models available, beating the proprietary AI from OpenAI and Anthropic on many major benchmarks.
