Meta has released llama 3.1. It seems to be a significant improvement to an already quite good model. It is now multilingual, has a 128k context window, has some sort of tool chaining support and, overall, performs better on benchmarks than its predecessor.

With this new version, they also released their 405B parameter version, along with the updated 70B and 8B versions.

I’ve been using the 3.0 version and was already satisfied, so I’m excited to try this.

  • @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    the code is FOSS, the weights aren’t, this is pretty common with e.g. FOSS games, the only difference here is weights are much costlier to remake from scratch than game assets

    • Possibly linux
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      54 months ago

      The license has limitations and isn’t something standard like Apache

      • Pennomi
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        54 months ago

        True, but it hardly matters for the source since the architecture is pulled into open source projects like transformers (Apache) and llama.cpp (MIT). The weights remain under the dubious Llama Community License, so I would only call the data “available” instead of “open”.