Llama

includes Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 4, Llama 3.1, Llama 70B

7 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2023 by Byung Liu · said 77 times in 34 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 2, 2023 positive
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Byung Liu: Sourcegraph will offer a self-hostable LLM within six months
“And while we don't have one that's like completely self-hostable yet, I think, you know, with all the interesting things happening around, you know, llama, alpaca and that sort of thing, I think like within six months we'll, we'll have like a viable language m…”
Byung Liu Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 32:22 Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
Sep 25, 2023 positive
What-if
Ghodsi: AI progress would be far behind without Meta releasing Llama
“If the original Llama was never released, What would the state of the world and our view of AI be right now? We would be way further behind, right? And A, it was a big model you know, by what existed in open source and it was open sourced. And both of those th…”
Ali Ghodsi Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 14:20 AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
May 9, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Horowitz: Only researchers can tell top AI models apart
“I think if you look at the very top models you know, Claude and OpenAI and Mistral and Lama The only people who I feel like really can tell the difference as users amongst those models are the people who study them. You know, like they're getting pretty close.”
Ben Horowitz May 9, 2024 ▶ 6:24 Build Your Startup With AI
Oct 1, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schmidt: ChatGPT, Llama, and DeepSeek use Nous Research's YaRN context extension
“Bone here is the lead author of a method we developed called YARN, which is a context window extension method that we released and did the research on. It is now used by every, every model you use nowadays, everything, everything Chachipiti, Lama, DeepSeq, all…”
Jeff Schmidt Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 12:18 The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
Oct 1, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schmidt: Fewer than ten organizations worldwide can train Llama-scale AI models
“Yeah, I mean, I would, it would probably be in the number of ones on my hand and it probably wouldn't use all my fingers, you know. Yeah, I mean, you basically have, OpenA, Anthropic, Meta, X, Google, and then you have a few Mistral, and then Deep Seek and a c…”
Jeff Schmidt Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 25:00 The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Mascorro: Distillations from DeepSeek-R1 Outperformed Direct RL on Smaller Models
“So it turns out in their experiments, they took Lama's EV and some of these are QN models, and they basically apply RL straight the same way they did it with R one on these base models. And it turns out that it improved in some fields, but it was not a signifi…”
Marco Mascorro Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 25:26 DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bornstein: Meta tailored Llama license thresholds to exclude only two companies
“I do remember that the numbers were like specifically chosen at that time that you could go find it was like two companies in the world. That like fit the definition that they had excluded from their license.”
Matt Bornstein Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 20:45 How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
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