Meta releases beefed-up AI models

Being open source means that developers outside of Meta are free to customise Llama 3 as they wish and the company may then incorporate those improvements and insights in an updated version. — Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Thursday introduced an improved AI assistant built on new versions of its open source Llama large language model for powering the technology.

Meta AI is smarter and faster due to advances in publicly available Llama 3, the tech titan said in a blog post.