Meta’s aggressive efforts to make AI assistants a ubiquitous presence in apps continues to pay off. Meta AI is on the verge of passing its next major milestone, reaching “almost” 600 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg shared in an update. Meta AI, which debuted last fall, surpassed 500 million users in October.
This update coincided with the release of Meta’s latest Llama 3.3 70B model. According to Meta, the latest text model has “performance comparable to the Llama 3.1 405B model,” but at “a fraction of the cost.” Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of Generated AI at Meta, posted a graph on X showing Llama 3.3 scoring higher on several benchmarks compared to Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. I did.
Introducing Llama 3.3 – a new 70B model that offers the performance of the 405B model, but is easier and more cost effective to run. This model improves core performance by leveraging the latest advances in post-training techniques, including optimizing online settings… pic.twitter.com/6oQ7b3Yuzc
— Ahmad Al Dahle (@Ahmad_Al_Dahle) December 6, 2024
Zuckerberg also briefly teased the next major release. In a video he shared on Instagram, Zuckerberg said the release of 3.3 was “the last big AI update of the year,” before saying, “Next stop is Llama 4.” Zuckerberg has so far been pretty quiet about what’s in store for Rama 4, but he did offer some hints. The CEO said earlier this year that the model was being trained on a cluster of more than 100,000 H100s, and that one of the “smaller” Llama 4 models would be released “sometime early next year.” .
