State-of-the-Art Performance

Meta Llama 3 introduces two groundbreaking models with 8B and 70B parameters, representing a significant advancement in language model capabilities. These models have been meticulously pretrained and instruction-fine-tuned, delivering unparalleled performance across a diverse range of industry benchmarks. From enhanced reasoning to improved code generation, Meta Llama 3 pushes the boundaries

In the spirit of open collaboration, Meta Llama 3 is being made available to the community, sparking a wave of innovation across the AI landscape. Developers now have the opportunity to explore new possibilities, from applications and developer tools to evaluations and inference optimizations. The potential for creativity and discovery is limitless.

Goals and Vision for Meta Llama 3

Meta Llama 3 sets out to build the best open models in its class, rivaling even the most proprietary solutions available today. The goal is to address developer feedback and enhance the overall usefulness of Meta Llama 3, all while upholding a commitment to responsible AI deployment. Looking ahead, the vision for Meta Llama 3 includes multilingual and multimodal capabilities, extended context, and ongoing improvements in core AI functionalities.

Meta Llama 3 pioneers a novel approach to instruction fine-tuning, unlocking the true potential of pretrained models. Through a combination of supervised fine-tuning, rejection sampling, and preference optimization, Meta Llama 3 excels in chat-based use cases, demonstrating superior reasoning and coding capabilities. By learning from preference rankings, Meta Llama 3 enhances its ability to select optimal responses, ensuring a more intuitive user experience.

Scaling Up Pretraining

To fully unlock the potential of Meta Llama 3, significant efforts have been made to scale up pretraining. With over 15T tokens sourced from publicly available data, Meta Llama 3’s training dataset is seven times larger than its predecessor. By incorporating extensive data filtering pipelines and leveraging scaling laws for downstream evaluations, Meta Llama 3 achieves unprecedented levels of performance across various domains.