Capability gains

Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta released Llama 3.3 70B Instruct with performance approaching Llama 3.1 405B Instruct at much lower serving cost under the Llama community license.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM70confidence 98/100

Why it moved the index

A much smaller open-weight instruction model approached the prior 405B tier's performance and reduced frontier-level serving cost, accelerating broad deployment and diffusion. The exact model card establishes the immutable tier.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 70 · confidence 98

    New December 2024 exact open-weight model tier with no durable identity collision.

    12 Aug 2026