Community Paper Reading: The Llama 3 Herd of Models

​Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B–according to them, it’s “the first openly available model that rivals the top AI models when it comes to state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use, and multilingual translation.” Will the latest Llama herd ignite new applications and modeling paradigms like synthetic data generation? Will it enable the improvement and training of smaller models, as well as model distillation? Meta thinks so. We’ll take a look at what they did here, talk about open source, and decide if we want to believe the hype.

Paper: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/the-llama-3-herd-of-models/