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TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new Llama 3 models give open source AI a boost


Meta's new AI models are here, as part of a series of announcements from the company as it integrates AI further with Facebook and Instagram.

The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open-source, helping them stand apart from competing offerings from OpenAI and other well-known names. What matters for those of us not competing to build and release the most capable, or largest AI models, what we care about is that they are still getting better with time. After all, some technologists — and some computing doomers, to be clear — are worried that AI tech is developing too fast and could prove dangerous to democracies and more.

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