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Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3

The open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta today is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works.

“It takes a lot of time to fine-tune, but a bunch of variations of these models are going to come out in the next few months,” LeCun said at Imagination in Action, a conference at MIT focused on generative AI. That same month he declared that Meta’s ultimate goal—like that professed by OpenAI and Google—is to develope so-called artificial general intelligence, machines that can do anything and everything that a human intellect can. The growing capabilities of open source AI models have spurred some experts to worry that they could make it easier to develop cyber, chemical, or biological weapons—or even become hostile toward humans.

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