Meta presents Llama 3, the latest generation of its speech models, which is freely available for download. The models are said to surpass the performance of many competitors and can even compete with some of the best proprietary models. Llama 3 is said to excel at multiple-choice questions, programming tasks, and mathematical problems. In addition to the models themselves, Meta is presenting a standalone chatbot based on Llama 3 that is positioned as a direct competitor to ChatGPT and others. This chatbot integrates Meta’s image generator “Imagine”. Read more about it on VentureBeat.