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Meta's Llama 3 is Here 🦙
+ Microsoft's VASA-1 Turns Photos Into 'Talking Faces'
Gina Acosta
April 19, 2024
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Meta AI today released the next generation of its open-source language models, a long-awaited release that seems ready to blow the competition away.
Let's jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Meta Unveils Powerful Llama 3 Open-Source AI Model 🦙
AI Research: Microsoft Achieves Realistic Real-Time Talking Avatars with VASA-1
AI Tutorial: How to access Meta AI
AI Tools to check out
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
META
Meta Releases Powerful Llama 3 Open-Source AI Model 🦙
Meta AI today released the next generation of its open-source large language models called Llama 3. According to the company, these new models match or exceed the performance of some of the leading proprietary AI systems.
Details:
The initial Llama 3 series comprises two pre-trained and instruction-tuned LLMs, one with 8 billion parameters and the other with 70 billion parameters.
The models were trained on a massive 15 trillion token dataset. The dataset is seven times larger than Llama 2.
The 70B model outperforms models like Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro and Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet in several benchmarks.
Meta is launching a new AI assistant called Meta AI powered by Llama 3. It will be available on the web at meta.ai and can also be used on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
Llama 3 is not complete with the models released today, Meta claims it will continue to develop the models and release additional models with new features such as multilingualism, a longer context window, and stronger overall capabilities in the coming months. According to Meta, the largest models in Llama 3 have over 400 billion parameters and could reach GPT-4 level capabilities
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AI RESEARCH
Microsoft Achieves Realistic Real-Time Talking Avatars with VASA-1
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft researchers have achieved a breakthrough in generating highly realistic talking avatars from just a single photo and an audio clip.
Details:
This new model, called VASA-1, can produce lifelike videos with accurate lip-syncing, vivid facial expressions, and natural head movements in real time.
It was trained on a massive dataset of face video data. From a single photo, it captures the person's identity, 3D appearance, and facial dynamics.
In tests, VASA-1 significantly outperformed previous methods in terms of audio synchronization of lip and head movements and video quality. The method delivers 512x512 pixel videos at up to 40 fps in real-time.
Microsoft sees immense potential for VASA-1 in creating lifelike digital avatars that could enhance communications, power AI tutors and therapists, and much more. However, the researchers also recognize the risks of the technology being misused. As a result, Microsoft will not release VASA-1 publicly at this time.
You can visit the VASA-1 project page to see several examples.
AI Tutorial
How to access Meta AI
Currently, Meta AI is being deployed within Meta apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, as well as on the web at Meta.ai.
Not all countries have access yet; you might need to use a VPN.
You can check whether you have access by visiting meta.ai or any of the apps mentioned above and look for the Meta AI icon in the top right-hand corner of your list of conversations.
What can you do with Meta AI?
This AI assistant, built with the powerful Llama 3, allows you to:
- Generate and edit images: Use "/imagine" and describe your image.
- Write and summarize content.
- Search for current information: It uses Bing to search the web.
- Check sources: click at the bottom of the answer to access the source websites.
- Get help with math problems, etc
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