Meta Releases New AI Assistant Powered by Llama 3 Model
Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
ChatGPT kicked off the AI chatbot race. Meta is determined
to win it.
To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last
September, is now being integrated into the search box of
Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. It’s also going to
start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed. You can still
chat with it in the messaging inboxes of Meta’s apps. And for the
first time, it’s now accessible via a standalone website at
Meta.ai.
For Meta’s assistant to have any hope of being a real ChatGPT
competitor, the underlying model has to be just as good, if not
better. That’s why Meta is also announcing Llama 3, the next major
version of its foundational open-source model. Meta says that
Llama 3 outperforms competing models of its class on key
benchmarks and that it’s better across the board at tasks like
coding. Two smaller Llama 3 models are being released today, both
in the Meta AI assistant and to outside developers, while a much
larger, multimodal version is arriving in the coming months.
I keep circling back to the notion that OpenAI has no moat. ChatGPT is certainly the best-known LLM, and perhaps still the best, but I don’t think that’s any more of a long-term competitive advantage than some company in 1986 having “the best C compiler”. What’s needed are ways to bring LLMs to users. To give them purpose, in products. That’s what Meta is doing, by integrating their AI into all of their major products.
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Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
ChatGPT kicked off the AI chatbot race. Meta is determined
to win it.
To that end: the Meta AI assistant, introduced last
September, is now being integrated into the search box of
Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. It’s also going to
start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed. You can still
chat with it in the messaging inboxes of Meta’s apps. And for the
first time, it’s now accessible via a standalone website at
Meta.ai.
For Meta’s assistant to have any hope of being a real ChatGPT
competitor, the underlying model has to be just as good, if not
better. That’s why Meta is also announcing Llama 3, the next major
version of its foundational open-source model. Meta says that
Llama 3 outperforms competing models of its class on key
benchmarks and that it’s better across the board at tasks like
coding. Two smaller Llama 3 models are being released today, both
in the Meta AI assistant and to outside developers, while a much
larger, multimodal version is arriving in the coming months.
I keep circling back to the notion that OpenAI has no moat. ChatGPT is certainly the best-known LLM, and perhaps still the best, but I don’t think that’s any more of a long-term competitive advantage than some company in 1986 having “the best C compiler”. What’s needed are ways to bring LLMs to users. To give them purpose, in products. That’s what Meta is doing, by integrating their AI into all of their major products.