Meta Launches Llama 3.2, Beats All Closed Source Models on Vision [Video]

Meta today announced the launch of Llama 3.2 to enhance edge AI and vision tasks, offering both small and medium vision LLMs (11B and 90B) and lightweight models (1B and 3B) optimised for on-device use, with robust support for Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware.

“Llama 3.2 models bring state-of-the-art capabilities to developers without the need for extensive resources, enabling innovation and breakthroughs directly on edge and mobile devices,” said Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.

Interestingly, it claimed to beat all closed source models on vision, including Claude3-Haiku and GPT-40-mini. 

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