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Meta releases Llama 3
Meta releases its fourth foundation-model generation with more training data and stronger same-scale performance.
What happened
Event details
Meta released Llama 3 on April 18, 2024. The model has 70B parameters, is open source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the Introducing Meta Llama 3 announcement is the primary source.
Assessment
Why it matters
An open-source model release with a documented model, parameter scale or access condition.
79/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Publicly available as an open-source model family.