{"id":25345,"date":"2024-07-25T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25345"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:58:00","slug":"llama-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/llama-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Llama 3.1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Llama 3.1:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is Meta\u2019s largest ever <strong>open source AI model<\/strong>, and it has outperformed the likes of OpenAI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gpt-4o\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPT-4<\/a>o and Anthropic\u2019s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on numerous benchmarks.<\/li>\n<li>The new Llama 3.1 models are reportedly far more complex compared to Llama 3 models.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It can <strong>converse <\/strong>in <strong>eight languages<\/strong>, <strong>write higher-quality computer code<\/strong> and solve more complex math problems than previous versions.<\/li>\n<li>It comes with 405 billion parameters, or variables that the algorithm takes into account to generate responses to user queries.<\/li>\n<li>The running inference (a process to train machine learning models) on Llama 3.1 405B is cost-effective as it is around 50 per cent cheaper than closed models like OpenAI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gpt-4o\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPT-4o<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Llama comes with systems <strong>like Llama Guard<\/strong> that can be secure against unintentional harms such as bad health advice or unintended self-replication, which he noted as major concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is an open source AI model?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> technology that is publicly available for <strong>both commercial and non-commercial use<\/strong> under several open source licences.<\/li>\n<li>It is characterised by the availability of <strong>its components to users under licences<\/strong> that allow them to study how the system works and inspect its components.<\/li>\n<li>These models come with datasets, ready-to-use interfaces, and prebuilt algorithms to help developers embark on their app development journey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Large Language Model (LLMs)?<\/h3>\n<p>A large language model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) program that can recognize and generate text, among other tasks. LLMs are trained on huge sets of data\u2014hence the name &#8220;large.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/meta-llama-open-source-ai-explained-9472755\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meta introduces Llama 3.1: What is an open-source AI model? How can it change the world?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Llama 3.1 is Meta\u2019s largest ever open source AI model, and it has outperformed the likes of OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o and Anthropic\u2019s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on numerous benchmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}