Meta’s foray into the large language model space and the only true “open source” LLM. Llama is either accessed through third-party frontend interfaces such as Perplexity’s Llama Chat (link) or by installing on your machine locally.
- In September 2024, Meta LLaMa 3.1 was released, introducing improvements in reasoning, natural language understanding, and fine-tuning efficiency. This version enhances both open-source accessibility and performance in multilingual contexts.
