Meta’s aggressive efforts to make its AI assistant a ubiquitous presence in its apps continue to pay off. Meta AI is poised for its next major milestone, with “nearly” 600 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg shared in . Meta AI, which debuted last fall, died in October.
The update arrived alongside liberation of the latest Llama 3.3 70B model from Meta. According to Meta, the latest text model has “similar performance to the Llama 3.1 405B model” but costs “a fraction of the cost.” Ahmad Al-Dahle, vice president of generative AI at Meta, published a chart on from OpenAI.
Introducing Llama 3.3 – a new 70B model that offers the performance of our 405B model but is easier and more cost effective to use. By leveraging the latest advances in post-training techniques, including online preference optimization, this model improves baseline performance at… pic.twitter.com/6oQ7b3Yuzc
– Ahmad Al-Dahle (@Ahmad_Al_Dahle) December 6, 2024
Zuckerberg also briefly teased the next major release. “Next stop is Llama 4,” Zuckerberg said in shared on Instagram, after noting that version 3.3 was the “last big AI update of the year.” So far, Zuckerberg has been pretty tight-lipped about what’s in store for Llama 4, although he has given some hints. The CEO Earlier this year, the model was being trained on a cluster of over 100,000 H100s with the expected release of one of the “smaller” Llama 4 models “early next year.”