Mark Zuckerberg aims to rival OpenAI, Google with new Llama AI model

Zuckerberg during an interview at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US. Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc debuted a new and powerful AI model, called Llama 3.1, that Zuckerberg called ‘state of the art’ and said will rival similar offerings from competitors. — Bloomberg

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc debuted a new and powerful AI model that chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg called “state of the art” and said will rival similar offerings from competitors like OpenAI and Alphabet Inc’s Google.

The new model released Tuesday, called Llama 3.1, took several months to train and hundreds of millions of dollars of computing power. The company said it represents a major update from Llama 3, which came out in April.