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Act IV · Multimodal, open source catches up

Open modelMeta

Llama 3 / 3.1 405B

8B and 70B models in April; the 405B Llama 3.1 in July.

15Ttraining tokens

Why it matters

The 405B is widely seen as the first open-weight model close to the closed frontier.

Costs and controversy

At that size, almost nobody can run it at home.

Built on

DPOLlama 2

Led to

Llama 4

Source: ai.meta.com ↗

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