A new version of Llama artificial intelligence was released; Meta AI users reached 600 million

Meta has introduced the latest artificial intelligence model from the Llama family. The new model that Llama 3.3 70B It is said to provide performance equal to the largest model of this family at a lower cost. Also, “Mark Zuckerberg” has announced that now close to 600 million users monthly from Meta AI they use

Ahmad Al-Dahleh, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Meta, posted on X that the text-only model Llama 3.3 70B offers the functionality of the larger model Llama 3.1 405B at a lower cost. It is written in his post:

“Using the latest advances in post-training techniques … this model improves the performance of the core of this AI at a much lower cost.”

Performance of the new Llama AI model

Al-Dahle also published an image showing that the new Llama 3.3 70B model outperforms Google’s Gemina 1.5 Pro, GPT-4o, and Amazon’s new Nova Pro model in some benchmarks such as MMLU, which evaluates the model’s ability to understand language.

Meta’s spokesperson also sent an email to TechCrunch and said that this model improves performance in areas such as mathematics, general knowledge, providing instructions and using programs.

The Llama 3.3 70B model is available now through the Hugging Face platform and the official Llama website.

Simultaneously with the introduction of the new Llama artificial intelligence model, Mark Zuckerberg published a post on Trades and said that the Meta AI platform now has nearly 600 million users per month. Meta AI launched last fall, and as of early last month, its user base surpassed 500 million.

Zuckerberg also released a video on Instagram saying that Llama 3.3 will be the last major update of this artificial intelligence for this year, and the next version is Llama 4.