Meta and Microsoft Introduce Llama 2 AI and It's Open Source
Meta touts that Llama 2 was trained on 40% more data than the first
model and announced that it will be available on Microsoft’s cloud
computing platform Azure.
By Kevin Hurler July 18, 2023
https://gizmodo.com/meta-and-microsoft-introduce-open-source-llama-2-ai-1850652165
As the AI bubble continues to inflate—for better or worse—two titans of
the tech industry, Microsoft and Meta, have unveiled the second
generation of LLaMA, and they’re giving competitor OpenAI a run for its
money by making it open source.
Meta announced the new open-access Llama, which stands for Large
Language Model Meta AI, in a blog post today. (17/8/2023)
About: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/
Request access:
https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-downloads/
The corporation explained that letting people peer under the hood of
Llama was an important step in making the AI safer, as a “generation of
developers and researchers can stress test [it].” Llama 2 is now
available for free for research and commercial use—Meta touts that Llama
2 was trained on 40% more data than the first model. Meta also named
Microsoft as a preferred partner in Llama 2, with the AI being available
with Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure.
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“An open approach to innovation allows for collaboration, scrutiny &
iteration in a way that is especially suited to nascent technologies.
And it’s the best way to spread the benefits,” Meta president of Global
Affairs wrote on Twitter today.
“Giving businesses, startups & researchers access to tools they could
never build themselves, backed by computing power they can’t otherwise
access, can open up a world of social and economic opportunities.
At the same time, Qualcomm revealed that it was working with Meta to
bring Llama to more devices.
The telecommunications company said in a press release shared with
Gizmodo that Llama 2 would be integrated into smartphones and PCs
powered by the Snapdragon CPU beginning in 2024.
The partnership would bring the AI out of Meta’s cloud and onto
hardware, which can help developers save money on cloud computing while
also increasing the reliability of Llama.
“To effectively scale generative AI into the mainstream, AI will need to
run on both the cloud and devices at the edge, such as smartphones,
laptops, vehicles, and [Internet of Things] devices,” said Qualcomm
senior vice president Durga Malladi in the press release.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Llama in February as a competitor to
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has taken the world by storm since it was
introduced last autumn.
Llama is a chatbot, like ChatGPT, and has been trained on CCNet, C4,
Wikipedia, ArXiv, and Stack Exchange according to Meta at the time.
As you might predict, it has not been entirely smooth sailing for the
Llama, as the AI hype train continues to crash into issues of copyright.
Earlier this month, three authors—including comedian Sarah
Silverman—sued OpenAI and Meta for allegedly training their respective
AIs on copyrighted material, like Silverman’s book The Bedwetter.
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