Meta and Microsoft release free-to-use AI system Llama 2
Meta's Llama will be released free for research and commercial use. It will be available on Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure and its operating system Windows among others.
Sumit Rawat
In the AI competition, Meta has introduced Llama 2, a huge language AI model developed in conjunction with Microsoft. The AI is based on an open-source version that is freely available to the public.
The large language model (LLM) can also be used to build a chatbot similar to Chat-GPT. It is offered for commercial use, as well as research purposes, for established businesses, startups, and lone operators.
"In contrast to a fine-tuned model designed for a specific task, LLaMA is designed to be versatile and can be applied to many different use cases." "By sharing the LLaMA code, other researchers will be able to more easily test new approaches to limiting or eliminating these problems in large language models," Meta wrote in a blog post.
Microsoft said that the LLM will be available on its Azure cloud computing platform and its Windows operating system. Meta has stated that the LLM would be available on various platforms like as AWS and Hugging Face, among others.
"We offer developers a choice in the types of models they build on, supporting open and frontier models, and we are thrilled to be Meta's preferred partner as they release their new version of Llama 2 to commercial customers for the first time," the business wrote in a blog post.
The AI technologies will be embedded into Microsoft's platforms, the company announced at the Microsoft Inspire event. More information regarding the AI features incorporated within the 360 platform was provided by the company. Qualcomm has also announced a collaboration with Meta to bring LLaMa to laptops, phones, and headsets in the next years.
The AI LLM has been pretrained on freely available online data sources, according to Meta, and it uses publicly available instruction datasets and over 1 million human annotations.
Open source drives innovation because it allows many more developers to build with new technology," Zuckerberg said on Facebook. I believe that if the environment were more open, more progress could be made.
