Meta on Tuesday announced the release of Llama 3.1, the latest version of its large language model that the company claims now rivals competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic. The new model comes just three months after Meta launched Llama 3 by integrating it into Meta AI, a chatbot that now lives in Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp and also powers the company’s smart glasses. In the interim, OpenAI and Anthropic already released new versions of their own AI models, a sign that Silicon Valley’s AI arms race isn’t slowing down any time soon.
Meta said that the new model, called Llama 3.1 405B, is the first openly available model that can compete against rivals in general knowledge, math skills and translating across multiple languages. The model was trained on more than 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, currently the fastest available chips that cost roughly $25,000 each, and can beat rivals on over 150 benchmarks, Meta claimed.
llama.cpp, the underlying engine, doesn’t support extended RoPE yet. Basically this means long context doesnt work and short context could be messed up too.
I am also hearing rumblings of a messed up chat template?
Basically with any LLM in any UI that uses a GGUF, you have to be very careful of bugs you wouldn’t get in the huggingface-based backends. A lot of models run without errors, but not quite right.
I wouldn’t call it a “dud” on that basis. Lots of models come out with lagging support on the various inference engines, it’s a fast-movibg field.
