Meta’s recent release of Llama 3.1 405B has generated significant buzz among the influencers of social media platform “X,” positioning it as a landmark moment in the evolution of open-source AI. Influencers are highly enthusiastic about the Llama 3.1 model, which, with its unprecedented 405 billion parameters, stands as the largest openly available AI model to date. This significant move has elicited diverse reactions from the global technology community in the fourth week of July, reveals the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Shreyasee Majumder, Social Media Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Influencers are highly optimistic about Meta’s Llama 3.1, praising its unprecedented 128k context window and advanced tools for data generation and model distillation. The model’s performance has generated excitement for its applications in complex tasks and multilingual support, with influencers viewing Llama 3.1 as a significant milestone in the evolution of open-source AI and eagerly anticipating its impact on the industry. Influencers also commend the enhanced security features, such as Llama Guard 3 and Prompt Guard, which improve robustness and prevent misuse.”
Below are a few popular influencer opinions captured by GlobalData’s Social Media Analytics Platform:
“Llama 3.1 405B – the most capable open source large model today. @Meta is playing a long game to make the entire Llama suite open source, as all LLM eventually will be commoditised. Max your ecosystem will be most valuable in the long run.”
“Meta’s new open source Llama 3.1 has a 128k context window and beats GPT-4o on some benchmarks. It’s the first time open source models are approaching or at state of the art. The weights for Llama are also a whopping 750gb”
“Meta has introduced Llama 3.1, its most advanced open-source AI model to date. Offering significant improvements over its predecessor, Llama 3.1 includes a longer context window (up to 128k), better language support, and advanced tools for data generation and model distillation. Developers will like this a lot, particularly in handling complex tasks and multilingual applications….”
“Exciting day today as Meta launches its new Llama 3.1 models and they’re available in Bedrock immediately. Llama 3.1 is a substantial step forward and the models (highlighted by the powerful 405B model) are impressive and powerful. Customers are gonna love these high performance models. Giddy up! ”
“Huge congrats to @AIatMeta on the Llama 3.1 release! Few notes: Today, with the 405B model release, is the first time that a frontier-capability LLM is available to everyone to work with and build on. The model appears to be GPT-4 / Claude 3.5 Sonnet grade and the weights are open and permissively licensed, including commercial use, synthetic data generation, distillation and finetuning. This is an actual, open, frontier-capability LLM release from Meta….”
