🗣🤖 Edge#218: Meta AI's BlenderBot 3, A 175B Parameter Model that can Chat About Every Topic and Organically Improve Its Knowledge

The new release represents a major improvement compared to previous versions

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💥 What’s New in AI: Meta AI’s BlenderBot 3, A 175B Parameter Model that can Chat About Every Topic and Organically Improve Its Knowledge

BlenderBot has been one of the most exciting open source projects in the natural language understanding (NLU) space over the last few years. Initially released by Meta AI in 2020, BlenderBot provides a conversational interface that can chat with users about almost every topic by actively mining the internet for domain knowledge. The second release of BlenderBot delivered improved long-term memory and internet search capabilities. Last week, Meta AI made BlenderBot 3 publicly available, which represents a major improvement in scale compared to its predecessors.