Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, April 19th,

2024, I'm Brian McCullough today.

Meta-released Lama 3 yesterday and some of the moves they made have made me consider if Zuck could win

these first AI Wars. Is Zuck also getting aggressive in VR why Apple had to

take down the What's App and Threads apps in China, and of course the weekend long-range

suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Big AI News for Meta yesterday, but I'm going to break it up a bit.

First, Meta detailed its new flagship open source AI model Lama 3 comes in 8 billion and 70 billion parameter models to different

flavors and those are available now they are also right now powering the meta

AI chatbot but also interesting they teased an upcoming model trained on 15 trillion

tokens with more than 400 billion parameters.

Lama 2 was trained on 2 trillion tokens, so the leap to 15 trillion is quite something.

Quoting the verge.

A key focus for Lamma 3 was meaningfully decreasing its false refusals or the number of times a model

says it can't answer a prompt that is actually harmless. An example Zuckerberg

offers is asking it to make a killer margarita. Another is one I gave

him during an interview last year when the earliest

version of Meta-AI wouldn't tell me how to break up with someone. Meta has yet to make the final

call on whether to open source the 400 billion parameter version of Lama 3

since it's still being trained. Zuckerberg down plays the possibility of it not

being open source for safety reasons. I don't think that anything at the

level of what we or others in the field are working on in the next year is really in the ballpark of those type of risks, he says,

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