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Meta releases Llama 3.1
The release adds downloadable flagship weights and updates the smaller models.
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OCCURRED23 Jul 2024
PUBLIC ACCOUNT23 Jul 2024
EVIDENCEFirst-party account
About these dates
Date of the original developer release announcement.
Meta released Llama 3.1 with downloadable 405B flagship weights and updated smaller models. It described the flagship as competitive with leading hosted models and allowed its outputs to improve other models under the Llama licence. Meta ↗
The preceding Llama 3 launch on April 18, 2024 had introduced the smaller 8B and 70B models. The July release added the larger flagship rather than being the first appearance of Llama 3. Meta ↗
Sources & attribution
- Organizational disclosure 23 Jul 2024llama 3 1 405b release announcement ↗
Meta. Original developer announcement.
- Organizational disclosure 18 Apr 2024llama 3 release announcement ↗
Meta. Original developer announcement.