Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3

On Thursday morning, Meta released its latest artificial intelligence model, Llama 3, touting it as the most powerful to be made open source so that anyone can use it. The same afternoon, Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, said an even more powerful successor to Llama is in the works. He suggested it could potentially outshine the world's best closed AI models, including OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini. Meta released two versions of Llama 3 today, one with 8 billion parameters--an industry term that roughly conveys a model's power--and another with 70 billion parameters. LeCun said that bigger models are in the works and that the most powerful, with more than 400 billion parameters, is currently in training.