Meta‘s aggressive efforts to make its AI assistant a ubiquitous presence in its apps continue to bear fruit. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta AI is on the verge of reaching its next major milestone of “almost” 600 million monthly users. Meta AI, which debuted last fall, passed the 500 million user mark back in October.
The update coincided with the release of Meta’s latest model, Llama 3.3 70B. According to Meta, the latest text model has “similar performance to the Llama 3.1 405B model” but costs “half the price”. Ahmad Al-Daleh, vice president of generative AI at Meta, posted a graph on X showing that Llama 3.3 scored higher in several benchmarks compared to Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
Zuckerberg also briefly teased the next major release. “Next stop, Llama 4,” Zuckerberg said in a video posted on Instagram, noting that version 3.3 was “the last major AI update this year.” So far, Zuckerberg has been rather tight-lipped about what’s in store for Llama 4, although he has given some hints. Earlier this year, the CEO said that the model is being tested on a cluster of more than 100,000 H100s, and that one of the “smaller” Llama 4 models is expected to be released “sometime early next year.”
