Meta introduces "ChatGPT killer"

While Google and OpenAI have been focusing on consumer-facing A.I. products, Meta has gone in a different direction, releasing a large language model intended for research use by universities, NGO’s, and industry labs.

“Today we’re releasing a new state-of-the-art AI large language model called LLaMA designed to help researchers advance their work,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post .

“LLMs have shown a lot of promise in generating text, having conversations, summarizing written material, and more complicated tasks like solving math theorems or predicting protein structures. Meta is committed to this open model of research and we’ll make our new model available to the AI research community.”

And according to Meta’s research paper the LLaMA model is no slouch, with tests showing the LLama-13B model significantly outperforming ChatGPT-3 on most benchmarks despite being “10x smaller.”

What makes this feat even more impressive is that Meta was able to accomplish this performance using a single GPU, meaning that there’s a high probability that LLaMA models could be run on consumer-level hardware in the near future.

"I'm now thinking that we will be running language models with a sizable portion of the capabilities of ChatGPT on our own (top of the range) mobile phones and laptops within a year or two,"?wrote AI researcher Simon Willison.

Meta also went in a dramatically different direction than other A.I. companies by training the model on publicly available datasets, including Wikipedia and Common Crawl, introducing the possibility that the technology could become open source.

"Unlike Chinchilla, PaLM, or GPT-3, we only use datasets publicly available, making our work compatible with open-sourcing and reproducible, while most existing models rely on data which is either not publicly available or undocumented," tweeted project member Guillaume Lample.

In regards to how LLaMA will impact the future of Meta, with the amount of money Zuckerberg has lit on fire in the pursuit of the Metaverse (which no one seems to want but him) I’m sure stockholders are eagerly awaiting the moment he explains exactly how LLaMA is going to make them money.

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