Claude 3 Opus vs LLaMA 2
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus | Meta LLaMA 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Meta |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Jul 18 2023 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 2 shipped 230 days before Claude 3 Opus | |
Which is better: Claude 3 Opus or LLaMA 2?
Claude 3 Opus and LLaMA 2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 2 shipped 230 days before Claude 3 Opus, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude 3 Opus is proprietary, while LLaMA 2 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Opus and LLaMA 2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
LLaMA 2 was released by Meta on Jul 18 2023.
Claude 3 Opus is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 2 is an open weight model released by Meta.
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