Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more

About this episode

Rowan Cheung interviews Mark Zuckerberg about the release of Llama 3.1, its significance in AI, and its open-source nature.

Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B — the first-ever open-sourced frontier AI model, beating top closed models like GPT-4o across several benchmarks. Rowan Cheung (https://x.com/rowancheung) sat down with Mark Zuckerberg for an exclusive interview, diving into why this marks a significant moment in AI history. Find all the details about Llama 3.1 405B on Meta's official announcement page. Read our exclusive deep dive with the most important quotes here. __ Join our daily AI newsletter: http...

People in this episode

Host: Rowan Cheung

Guest: Mark Zuckerberg

Topics covered

• AI
• Open Source
• Meta
• Llama 3.1
• Mark Zuckerberg
• AI Safety

Keywords

• Llama 3.1
• Mark Zuckerberg
• AI models
• open source
• Meta
• GPT-4o
• AI safety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, GPT-4o

Products: Llama 3.1 405B

Books & works: Llama 3.1

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