Meta drops Llama 3 with 8B and 70B open weights
Meta just launched Llama 3, delivering 8B and 70B open-access models trained on over 15 trillion tokens. The smaller 8B variant can easily run and fine-tune on consumer GPUs down to 4-bit precision, backed by an expanded 128k vocabulary. Why it matters: Meta is resetting the benchmark for open AI, giving developers frontier-level capabilities without proprietary API lock-in.