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EVENT STREAM // APRIL 2024

META RELEASES LLAMA 3 OPEN-WEIGHT

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Meta releases Llama 3 with open weights, making near-frontier capability freely available. Debate intensifies over whether open-sourcing frontier models is reckless or essential for safety.

MODEL CAPABILITY POLICY
SOURCES [2]
  1. Meta announcement — about.fb.com
  2. Meta AI, "The Llama 3 Herd of Models" (arXiv:2407.21783) — arxiv.org