Meta AI

6 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2024 by Thomas Scialom · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jul 23, 2024 neutral
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Scialom: Llama 1 and 2 flagship size was chosen to reproduce Chinchilla
“Lama two, maybe I would say it's like Lama one. We had a flagship model, which was seven TB. It's also because the project was taking some routes to reproducing a chinchilla, which was a seven TB.”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 9:23 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Jul 23, 2024 positive
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Meta's Llama 3 post-training uses almost entirely synthetic data
“So what we did is that we generated all the data on the prompts with LAMA-II, and we applied, like, basically the last round of LAMA-II we had to kick off and start LAMA-III post-training. So Lama-free post-training doesn't have any, like, human-written answer…”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 33:40 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Jul 23, 2024 bullish
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Scialom: Next-generation Llama model will be bigger than Llama 3
“As, like, Mark announced, we have more and more GPUs, so the next generation will be bigger.”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 13:15 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Jul 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scialom: Agentic systems will yield order-of-magnitude scaling gains over pre-training
“I expect some incremental and significant progress on pre-training and post-training, but I'm really hopeful that we can gain some order of magnitude of scaling by interconnecting well models into agents as a more complex system that can do planning, that can …”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 47:14 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Jul 23, 2024 positive
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Scialom: Smaller Llama 3 models improved via distillation from 405B
“Having bigger models enables to collect better data, for instance, at RLHF stage, because that's the model we use for the annotation. And so we distillate straight forward, like those annotations from this better model to the other models. So I can guarantee y…”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 14:02 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Opinion
McCloy: Meta AI is a 'silent monster' driven by distribution reach
“Meta AI, for example, which I don't think gets necessarily remarked upon a ton in the like AI enthusiast, AI developer community, but like it's a silent monster, right? Because of Meta's distribution and reach.”
Robert McCloy Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 7:43 AI is Eating Search
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