WhatsApp for Android is tipped to be engaged on a brand new characteristic that may let customers select the Massive Language Mannequin Meta AI (Llama) 3 mannequin to energy the Meta AI chatbot. On Thursday, a characteristic tracker claimed that this characteristic is at present beneath growth and never accessible to beta testers. The characteristic is alleged to let customers select between the Llama 3-70B AI mannequin and the Llama 3-405B AI mannequin. The latter is tipped to be accessible for a restricted variety of prompts.

WhatsApp might introduce possibility to decide on AI Mannequin

In keeping with WhatsApp characteristic tracker WABetaInfo, the brand new characteristic was spotted within the WhatsApp for Android beta model 2.24.14.7. Nevertheless, it isn’t seen at current and beta testers won’t be able to work together with it. This characteristic builds on prime of the latest introduction of the Meta AI chatbot within the app and lets customers select from the smaller Llama 3-70B mannequin and the newest and bigger Llama 3-405B mannequin.

WhatsApp’s Meta Llama Mannequin characteristic
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In a screenshot shared by the characteristic tracker, a brand new settings menu might be seen titled Meta Llama mannequin. This area will let customers select the AI mannequin. The above talked about choices are proven with the Llama 3-70B mannequin listed because the “quicker” mannequin and the Llama 3-405B mannequin listed as “Higher for extra advanced prompts”.

A block of textual content beneath states, “Preview the 405B mannequin for a restricted variety of prompts every week. As soon as you’ve got reached the restrict, you’ll be able to proceed your conversations utilizing the 70B mannequin.”

Notably, the Llama 3-405B AI mannequin has not but been launched to the general public. Whereas releasing the 8B and 70B Llama 3 fashions in April, Meta acknowledged that it’s nonetheless coaching the household’s largest mannequin with 400 billion parameters. If the details about the brand new WhatsApp characteristic is true, it’s seemingly that the corporate intends to fine-tune the mannequin primarily based on person interactions.

As acknowledged in a earlier report, Meta has already confirmed that it’s coaching its AI fashions with person information throughout interactions with its AI chatbots.