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Meta rolls out an updated AI assistant, built with the long-awaited Llama 3

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Meta for its AI assistant platform, Meta AI, which has been built using the long-awaited open source Llama 3 large language model (LLM). The company says it’s “now the most intelligent AI assistant you can use for free.” As for use case scenarios, the company touts the ability to help users study for tests, plan … Read more

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

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Meta has unveiled details about its AI training infrastructure, revealing that it currently relies on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its open source Llama 3 LLM.  The company says it will have over 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in service by the end of 2024, and the computing power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s … Read more

Code Llama 70B beats ChatGPT-4 at coding and programming

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Developers, coders and those of you learning to program might be interested to know that the latest Code Llama 70B large language model released by Meta and specifically designed to help you improve your coding. Has apparently beaten OpenAI’s ChatGPT  when asking for coding advice, code snippets and coding across a number of different programming … Read more

Llama 3 coming soon says Mark Zuckerberg

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Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is making a significant leap into the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) with its new project, Llama 3. This advanced AI model is not just another incremental improvement; it represents a major step toward creating machines that can think and interact like humans. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO … Read more

LLaMA Pro AI progressive LLaMA with block expansion

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is constantly evolving, and researchers are always on the lookout for ways to improve how these systems learn. A recent breakthrough in the field has been the development of a new technique that helps AI remember old information while learning new things. This problem, known as catastrophic forgetting, has been a significant … Read more

Running Llama 2 on Apple M3 Silicon Macs locally

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Apple launched its new M3 Silicon back in October and has now made it available in a number of different systems allowing users to benefit from the next generation processing provided by the family of chips. If you are interested in learning more about running large language models on the latest Apple M3 silicon you’ll … Read more

LLaMA Factory lets you easily find tune and train LLMs

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If you are looking for ways to easily fine-tune and train large language models (LLMs) you might be interested in a new project called LLaMA Factory. that incorporates the LLaMA Board a one-stop online web user interface method for training and refining large language models. Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is a critical step in … Read more

Llama 2 70B vs Zephyr-7B LLM models compared

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A new language model known as Zephyr has been created. The Zephyr-7B-α large language model, has been designed to function as helpful assistants, providing a new level of interaction and utility in the realm of AI. This Llama 2 70B vs Zephyr-7B overview guide and comparison video will provide more information on the development and … Read more

How Meta created Llama 2 large language model (LLM)

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The development and evolution of language models have been a significant area of interest in the field of artificial intelligence. One such AI model that has garnered attention is Llama 2, an updated version of the original Llama model. Meta the development team behind Llama 2 has made significant strides in improving the model’s capabilities, … Read more