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Meta's big language model and AI assistant are getting improvements.

On Thursday, the company released the first models of the Llama 3 in two sizes, parameters 8B and 70B. They are also integrated into Meta AI, the company's AI assistant.

“With this new model, we believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant you can freely use,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg. said Thursday in an Instagram post.

said Meta in one blog post On Thursday, its newest models saw “significantly reduced false rejection rates, improved scope and increased diversity in model responses,” as well as progress in reasoning, code generation and guidance.

“With Llama 3, we set out to build the best open models that are on par with the best proprietary models available today,” the post reads. “This next generation of Llama demonstrates the latest performance across a wide range of industry benchmarks and offers new capabilities, including improved reasoning. We believe these are best-in-class open source models. “

although Meta bills Llama as open sourceLlama 2 asked companies with over 700 million monthly active users to seek a license from the company to use it, which Meta may or may not grant.

In the near future, Meta hopes to “make Llama 3 multilingual and multimodal, have longer context, and continue to improve overall performance in all key LLM skills such as reasoning and coding,” the company said in blog post.

So what do the changes mean for Meta AI now?

of AI Assistant can help with tasks like recommending restaurants, planning trips and making your emails sound more professional.

Using Meta AI's Imagine feature it also now produces sharper images faster: they'll start appearing as you type and change “with every few letters you type,” according to a Press release released on Thursday.

Meta AI is available on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and in the browser. The company says that multimodal Meta AI will also be coming to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses soon. It is being distributed in English in over a dozen countries outside the US.

As for what's next, Meta says it's working on models over 400B parameters that are still in training.

“I don't think many people today really think about Meta AI when they think about the main AI assistants that people use,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. said The Verge in an article published Thursday. “But I think this is the moment where we're really going to start introducing it to a lot of people, and I expect it to be a pretty big product.”

Meta AI, of course, faces tough competition from the most popular AI assistants, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude.