The release of Meta AI's Llama 3.1 today is a groundbreaking moment in the open-source AI landscape. Here's why this is such a pivotal development:
1/ Quality Parity across Open and Closed models: The quality gap between the best proprietary models and open models has essentially vanished. The possibility of open models surpassing closed ones is now on the horizon—something unimaginable just a year ago! Llama3.1-405b, the largest open frontier model, is competitive with leading foundation models across a range of tasks, including GPT-4, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additionally, llama3.1-8b and llama3.1-70b are competitive with closed and open models that have a similar number of parameters.
2/ Ready for Production across Multiple Hardware SKUs: We are the first platform to launch Llama 3.1 inference using both Nvidia and AMD GPUs. We're committed to providing the best and newest hardware to deliver unparalleled performance and cost efficiency for our developers. This makes it ideal for developers looking to deploy large, complex models with the best product experience, business operation efficiency and scalability.
3/ Compound AI Systems for Enterprise Tasks: The new Llama models cater specifically to enterprise needs, excelling in tool calling capabilities and offering a 128K context window. This is crucial for preserving multi-turn chat together with complex chaining applications across multiple modalities, which are increasingly common in today's AI deployments. Fireworks AI will continue to advance compound AI systems, leveraging the new llama3.1 series to integrate multiple models across many modalities and tools and APIs.
Fireworks AI is thrilled to be at the forefront, partnering with Meta to bring these innovations to our developers.
Let's harness the power of Llama 3.1. We can’t wait to see what you disrupt. Blogpost with details here: https://lnkd.in/ejry538a