The Information reported that Facebook's parent company, Meta, plans to launch Llama 3, a new AI language model, in July. As part of Meta's attempts to enhance its large language models (LLMs), the open-source LLM was designed to offer more comprehensive responses to contentious queries.
In order to give context to questions they believe to be contentious, meta researchers are attempting to "loosen up" the model. For example, Llama 2, Meta's current chatbot model for social media sites, ignores contentious subjects like "kill a vehicle engine" and "how to win a war." The study claims that Llama 3 would be able to comprehend more nuanced questions like "how to kill a vehicle's engine," which refers to turning a vehicle off as opposed to taking it out of service.
To ensure that the responses from the new model are more precise and nuanced, Meta will internally designate a single person to oversee tone and safety training. The goal of the endeavour is to improve the ability to respond and use Meta's new large language model. This project is crucial because Google recently disabled the Gemini chatbot's capacity to generate images in response to criticism over old photos and phrases that were sometimes mistranslated.
The research was released in the same week that Microsoft, the challenger to OpenAI's ChatGPT, Mistral, the French AI champion, announced a strategic relationship and investment.
As the tech giant attempts to attract more clients for its Azure cloud services, the multi-year agreement underscores Microsoft's plans to offer a variety of AI models in addition to its biggest bet in OpenAI.
Microsoft confirmed its investment in Mistral, but stated that it owns no interest in the company. The IT behemoth is under regulatory investigation in Europe and the United States for its massive investment in OpenAI.
The Paris-based startup develops open source and proprietary large language models (LLM), such as the one OpenAI pioneered with ChatGPT, to interpret and generate text in a human-like manner.
Its most recent proprietary model, Mistral Large, will be made available to Azure customers first through the agreement. Mistral's technology will run on Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure.