Meta shipped Llama 3.1, a 405‑billion‑parameter open‑weight model that sits next to Anthropic’s Claude 3 and OpenAI’s GPT‑4o in raw size. The launch pushes Meta’s open‑source AI narrative forward and adds quantized FP…

The suite arrives in three sizes—8 B, 70 B, and the flagship 405 B. All three use a dense feed‑forward transformer trained on 15.6 trillion curated tokens. Meta’s license permits synthetic‑data generation but retains …

An internal livestream of an Applied AI meeting was hijacked by an angry engineer who shouted that he was “the company’s bitch” and demanded that a senior AI executive be called a “piece of shit.” The outburst was cap…

Three current employees, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the unit’s 6,500 engineers and product managers as stuck doing “menial” tasks such as generating puzzle sets to test model reliability. One called…