The Meta AI assistant is unique in integrating real-time search results from both Bing and Google, and its image generation has been upgraded to create animations and high-res images on the fly. The assistant is being rolled out in English to several countries, with more to follow. Meta is also introducing two open-source Llama 3 models for outside developers to use. The largest version of Llama 3, which has over 400 billion parameters, is still being trained and may be open-sourced in the future.
Key takeaways:
- Meta is integrating its AI assistant into the search box of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and it will also start appearing directly in the main Facebook feed.
- Meta is announcing Llama 3, the next major version of its foundational open-source model, which it claims outperforms competing models and is better at tasks like coding.
- Meta AI is now being rolled out in English to several countries including Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
- Meta is introducing two open-source Llama 3 models for outside developers to freely use, and is considering open-sourcing the 400-billion-parameter version of Llama 3.