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Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal


Executives and researchers leading Meta's AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages

The French AI startup Mistral, one of the biggest open competitors to Meta, was mentioned several times in the internal messages, but the tone was dismissive. Prosecutors in this case allege that Meta’s executives occasionally cut corners in their mad race to shipping AI models, training on copyrighted books in the process. Previously with Gizmodo, Bloomberg, and MSNBC, Zeff has covered the rise of AI and the Silicon Valley Bank crisis.

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