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Meta Llama 405B and Llama 3.1 - What’s new and what you need to know
A guide on Meta Llama 3.1, OpenAI creates new rules, Tesla's humanoid robots coming in 2026, X's new Grok feature flops and more!
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July 24, 2024
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Meta just released a bombshell with THREE new AI models. Does OpenAI finally have some serious competition? We break down everything you need to know. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: X adds a Grok AI powered feature, Google adds AI to the Play Store, OpenAI creates new rules, AI text to video inside of a chatbot and how AI is increasing employee workload. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Tesla’s humanoid robots set to launch in 2026, Mistral launches new model looking just as impressive as LLama 3.1 and GPT-4o, Cohere AI cuts its staff and the top 10 AI startups in 2024. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: Kling AI text to video has finally been released globally? Does it stand its ground against Runway? Let’s find out. See it here
🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: Here’s what you need to know about Meta’s new AI models and how it impacts the AI landscape. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about Meta's Llama 3.1, how to win ChatGPT for a year and OpenAI getting questioned by U.S. Senators. Check it here!
Meta Llama 405B and Llama 3.1 - What’s new and what you need to know 🦙
Another one!?
Another day, another HUGELY impactful model.
Just days after OpenAI drops the game-changing GPT-4o Mini, Meta responded with a one-of-a-kind model in Llama 3.1 and the brand spankin new 405B model.
What's it all mean? We gotchyu.
Join the conversation and ask Jordan and Glen questions on GenAI and cyber here.
Also on the pod today:
• Highlights of Llama 3.1 and 405b ✨
• Functionalities and User Interface Updates 🧑💻️
• Meta's Focus and Its Implication on AI and Business 🤔
It’ll be worth your 57 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Potis.ai is a hiring copilot that tests skills, Fliz turns any URL into a video, and Rimo is an AI article generation tool.
AI chatbot features — Poe just introduced a direct integration with Pika Labs, bringing AI video capabilities to its chatbot interface.
Built-in AI video inside of a LLM interface?
Don't hate it.
— Jordan Talks Everyday AI (@EverydayAI_)
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Trending in AI – X launched a “More About This Account” feature powered by Grok and people are underwhelmed.
Big Tech - Google is boosting its Play Store with new AI features including AI comparisons and more data controls.
Future of Work – This new study shows that 77% of employees believe AI has increased workloads and hindered productivity.
OpenAI updates — OpenAI released rule-based rewards, which it says improves model safety.
Check This Out – Here’s a look at how Meta’s AI runs on the Quest 3 headset.
1. Elon Musk's Optimus Robot Set to Go on Sale in 2026 🤖
Elon Musk has officially announced that Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot will be available for sale in 2026, with early trials already taking place at Tesla facilities where it's handling tasks like battery management.
Musk anticipates a staggering demand for over 20 billion general-purpose humanoid robots worldwide, highlighting the potential impact of this technology.
2. Cohere Cuts Jobs After $500 Million Funding Round ✂️
Cohere, founded by former Google AI researchers, has recently made the difficult decision to cut 20 jobs from its workforce of 400 following a substantial $500 million funding round, bringing its valuation to $5.5 billion. Despite these layoffs, the company remains committed to enterprise AI solutions and is focused on efficiency while navigating challenges like the ongoing chip shortage.
COO Martin Kon emphasizes their dedication to using cutting-edge NVIDIA GPUs for their models as they continue to attract interest from clients in banking and financial services.
3. Bloomberg's Top 10 AI Startups That Are Changing the Game 👀
Bloomberg just released its list of the top 10 AI startups to watch in 2024. OpenAI leads the pack with a jaw-dropping $86 billion valuation, while Anthropic is giving it a run for its money with advanced language models.
Suno is making headlines in the music scene by generating catchy tunes, and Perplexity is challenging Google with its innovative search engine that has the publishing world on high alert.
4. Microsoft and Lumen Team Up to Supercharge AI Connectivity 🤝
Lumen Technologies and Microsoft just dropped a major partnership, announcing plans to turbocharge Lumen's network capacity with Microsoft Azure to meet the skyrocketing demand for data centers driven by AI.
This collaboration is not just about boosting bandwidth; Lumen’s Private Connectivity Fabric℠ will create a supercharged network that makes AI-ready infrastructure a reality for businesses everywhere.
5. MIT's MAIA: A Game-Changer for Understanding AI Neurons ⚛️
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) just unleashed a new tool called MAIA that dives deep into the murky waters of artificial intelligence, automating the interpretability of neural networks. This innovative system doesn't just label data; it generates hypotheses and conducts experiments to uncover the hidden quirks of AI models, tackling biases and enhancing safety.
With MAIA, researchers can identify specific neuron behaviors and even spot potential discrimination in image classifiers
5. MIT's MAIA: A Game-Changer for Understanding AI Neurons ⚛️
Well, that escalated quickly.
French AI startup Mistral has just unveiled its latest model, Mistral Large 2, boasting 123 billion parameters and rivaling Meta's newly released Llama 3.1. Despite having fewer parameters, Mistral's model is making waves with its advanced multilingual capabilities, improved coding performance, and a generous context window of 128,000 tokens.
However, it's mainly for non-commercial research unless companies secure a separate license. According to Mistral's blog post, this move signals their aggressive push in the AI domain, aiming to balance cost efficiency and high performance, potentially transforming AI applications across industries.
Sora Competitor? Kling AI review and Runway comparisons
Are we witnessing the dawn of a new AI video champion?
Kling AI has finally been released globally! How well does it perform and can it compete with Runway?
We put it to the test. And you’re prolly gonna be surprised by the results.
Check out today's AI in 5.
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Meta is just the parent company of Facebook, right?
Naaaah shorties.
Meta and their new large language model updates could greatly shape the future of how we work.
(Zero cap. This is for real.)
About 24 hours ago, Meta flipped the AI world upside down with Llama 3.1 and us AI geeks are buzzing louder than a beehive on Red Bull.
An Open Source model that’s as good as the biggest frontier models in the world.
What?
It’s free.
You can download it.
Build off of it.
So while there’s been plenty of talk since Meta stirred the AI pot, there’s also been a lotta oversight.
Maybe too much focus on benchmarks, and not enough focus on what this does to the business world at large.
So today, we cut through the chit-chat and gave it to you real.
Here’s the tl;dr version of Llama 3.1:
Meta released its ‘large’ LLM, the 405B parameter version
Meta updated the small 8B and medium 70B versions that were released in April
There’s a lot of under-the-hood technical updates
These are all open-source (ish), and available today to use, download and build upon. (No waiting for multiple quarters for whatever Google teased. Lolz)
Here’s an overview of what’s new, and the 5 things you need to know about Meta’s new models.
Let’s Llama y’all. 👇
1 – Meta 405B and 3.1 Update = Impressive Specs 👀️
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We hear ya. Benchmarks?!?
Yeah.
Even if you’re not a chart-reading, pencil-pushing benchmark lover like we are, we goooooooootttta talk about these benchmarks.
Not just because they’re crazy impressive. But because this is gonna set off a cheap compute race that everyone’s now gonna have to run.
So check it: The 405B beast is scoring 88.6 on MMLU.
For you non-nerds, that's like getting a 99.9% on the SAT of AI. It's breathing down GPT-4's neck (88.7). But here's the kicker y’all – it's open-source and Free 99!
And those "smaller" models?
The 8B and 70B?
They got jacked at the gym with 3.1. We're talking small-but-mighty, punching way above their weight class. The 8B is making Google's GEMMA 2B look like it skipped leg day.
Oh, and Meta's playing 4D chess with this "herd of experts" thing instead of the usual "mixture of experts."
It's like they took the AI playbook and said, "Nah, we're gonna write our own."
Try this:
Grab that 8B or 70B model on Hugging Face and run it on your laptop. Throw some mind-benders at it – like that apple and banana logic puzzle or the man and dog river-crossing thing.
See how it stacks up against the big boys.
Then get crazy – use it for something real in your biz and watch jaws drop. And you can run it locally. No internet. Private. And free.
Whuuuuuuuuu.
2 – Developer-Focused Strategy Against OpenAI 🎯
Alright, listen up devs.
Meta's not just entering the open source LLM game; they're flipping the whole dang table with the new Llama 3.1.
They've made Llama 3.1 available everywhere – AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, you name it.
It's like they're handing out superpowers at a dev conference.
(We don’t hate the Swag Table socks, but this is our kinda giveaway TBH.)
The timing? Chef's kiss.
OpenAI drops GPT-4o Mini like 72 hours ago, thinking they're hot stuff. (I mean, that drop was dreamy.)
Then BAM! Meta says, "Hold my beer startup” and releases this love llama beast.
And OpenAI's response after seeing Meta release a free and open-source benchmarking beaut? They essentially said fine-tuning for free on us. (Seriously.)
Try this:
Let us know…. should we be focusing more on Meta?
Should we do a course on Llama? |
3 – Llama 3.1 is Ready Today 🦙
No "coming soon" BS here, folks.
Llama 3.1 is out in the wild, ready to party.
You can play with it on Meta.AI (just need a Facebook or Insta login – yeah, yeah, we know), or download Llama 3 and go ham on your own machine.
Sure, the interface ain't as pretty as ChatGPT.
But who needs pretty when you've got power? Switch between the 70B and 405B models like you're changing channels.
And hey, they even threw in an image generation feature for funsies.
Try this:
Head to meta.ai or download whatever size your computer can handle.
Run some crazy prompts through it – like that business idea generator thing we mentioned.
See how it handles your half-baked, 2 AM creativity without you having to be a prompt engineer or even share data with Big Tech.
(Personally, we hand out our data like candy at a parade, cuz we don’t care. Love us some great retargeting. But we get the whole ‘need for privacy’ thing.)
Check out this tutorial when we gave Meta 3 the coding treatment. 👇
4 – An Open-Source Llama 3.1 is More Than Your Average LLM 😲
Llama 3.1 isn't just another chatbot on steroids.
It's like the Swiss Army knife of using AI to build AI. That’s super Meta, we know.
(Double pun!)
That model distillation feature that Zuckerberg talked about?
It's like having a mini-me maker for AI.
Take the big 405B model, tell it to make a smaller version that's a genius at just one thing your company needs.
Boom! Custom AI without needing a supercomputer.
(Alright, there’s some finetuning skills and dev brains needed in there, too, but you get the point.)
And synthetic data generation?
It's like having a genie that grants unlimited wishes for training data. No more begging for datasets or scraping the internet like it's 2010.
Try this:
Is Open source the way of the future?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg thinks it is, and his long-form blog post on the future of Open Source AI is worth a read.
5 – Meta Llama Has Tremendous Business Impacts 💼
Buckle up, buttercup, 'cause this is where it gets real for your bottom line.
Zuck's out here talking about a future with more AI agents than humans.
Which is exactly what we predicted in 2023 and people looked at us all funny.
Every business running multiple AIs.
This ain't sci-fi; this is next week's memo from HR.
The AI gold rush just kicked off, and Meta's handing out free pickaxes, dynamite, and treasure maps.
We're not just talking about automating your boring spreadsheet tasks. We're talking AI that can handle the complex, "I need a human for this" kinda stuff.
The future of work?
It's not about being the smartest human in the room. It's about being the best human at working with AI.
It's prompt engineering meets business strategy, and it's coming for your job description.
Try this:
We think a lot about the future of work. And talk with industry experts almost every single day.
We’ve had some hot-takes on the future of work. Here’s an updated guide on the business side of AI right now.
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