Canonical event
Llama 3.1 releases licensed 405B and smaller weights
Meta released Llama 3.1 weights including 405B, with 128K context and an updated custom license.
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- Licensed open-weight scale, specialized families and restricted reasoning previews diversified model development; vendor parity claims remain unverified.supported inference
- Downloadable model ecosystems expanded, while custom, noncommercial and permissive licenses remained materially different.supported inference
- Source-linked search prototypes and deployable model/tool integrations broadened the software interface layer.supported inference