BIG 5 LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS 2024

1. Anthropic’s Claude 3 – Available in 3 sizes focused on different use cases. Demonstrated enhanced contextual understanding, multilingual proficiency, and advanced coding/image capabilities.
2. OpenAI’s GPT-4o – Capable of multimodal processing across text, audio, images and video for more natural interactions. Twice as fast as prior models at half the cost. OpenAI implements safety features across modalities and evaluates models using their Preparedness Framework.
3. Meta’s Llama 3.1 – Open-source in 3 sizes, largest model called 405B. Showed competitive performance against commercial alternatives on benchmarks like MMLU, coding tasks, and math problems.
4. Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro – Powerful Mixture-of-Experts architecture allows processing of massive context windows up to 2 million tokens. Demonstrated advances in understanding language tasks as well as analyzing images, videos and audio.
5. xAI’s Grok-2 – Improved reasoning, coding assistance and real-time data access capabilities from sources like X.com. Also enables image generation thanks to integrated FLUX model.