Here’s All You Need to Know on LLaMa 3.1, Open-Source’s New King

Finally, closing the gap

Ignacio de Gregorio
10 min readJul 25, 2024
Generated by author using GPT-4o

In a major turn of events, history has been made.

Meta has finally released its largest model ever, LLaMa 3.1 405B, as well as its smaller brothers 8B and 70B, to change the AI landscape completely:

In a nutshell, open-source has finally caught up with the holy trinity: GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

This is great news for all of us but terrible news for the incumbents as they see the LLM market at high risks of commoditization and, with that, their billion-dollar CAPEX investments in serious risks of never making a return.

But what’s so special about LLaMa 3.1, and why is it so important?

There’s too much information floating around, so here are all the key things you need to know about this historic release.

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