Llama: A competitor artificial intelligence system to ChatGPT and Google’s Bard has been created by Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, but it’s taking a different approach by making it available without charge. Meta META, +0.46% The next edition of the company’s AI large language model, known as Llama 2, will be released in collaboration with Microsoft MSFT, +3.98%, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. Llama 2 will be made available for free for both study and commercial use.
Meta’s Approach Amidst Generative AI Rush
The social media business has long maintained a sizable research staff of computer scientists committed to advancing AI technology, much like industry rivals Google and Microsoft. However, it has been overshadowed by the rush to cash in on “generative AI” programmes that can produce original prose, graphics, and other types of media after ChatGPT’s introduction. In an effort to stand out from its Big Tech competitors, Meta has also made an effort to be more transparent in providing a look at the data and code it uses to create AI systems. It has suggested that by being so transparent, outside researchers will find it simpler to recognise and address the prejudice and toxicity that AI systems pick up through consuming the writing and communication styles of real humans. “Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Tuesday. “It also improves safety and security because when software is open, more people can scrutinize it to identify and fix potential issues. I believe it would unlock more progress if the ecosystem were more open, which is why we’re open sourcing Llama 2.”
Meta’s Source Code Publication History
Zuckerberg cited Meta’s history of publishing the source code for its AI efforts, including as when it created the well-known machine-learning platform PyTorch. However, the research paper outlining the new model exhibits less openness than Meta has in the past when developing models that call for consuming substantial amounts of digitised works, including books, news articles, and social media feeds. It says the latest model was trained on “a new mix of data from publicly available sources, which does not include data from Meta’s products or services,” but does not specify what data was used. It does say that Meta removed data from websites known to contain a “high volume of personal information about private individuals.”
Meta’s Capital-Free Evolution of their AI Language Model
The first iteration of Meta’s model, unveiled in February, was referred to as LLaMA, or Large Language Model Meta AI. For its second iteration, Llama 2, it has now dispensed with the capital letters. According to Zuckerberg, users can download its brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) models directly or via a collaboration that makes them accessible on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure “along with Microsoft’s safety and content tools.” The partnership’s financial details weren’t made public. Although Microsoft is listed by Meta as a “preferred” partner, Meta also stated that the models will be made available through other companies, including AI startup Hugging Face, Amazon AMZN, -0.55% Web Services, and other cloud providers. Microsoft is a significant investor in and collaborator with OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT. ChatGPT is not open source, nor are comparable products from Microsoft or Alphabet’s GOOG, -0.78% GOOGL, -0.71% Google. At Microsoft’s annual presentation for business clients on Tuesday, both Microsoft and Meta also announced their new AI alliance. In a different statement, Microsoft stated the two businesses “share a commitment to democratising AI and its benefits and we are excited that Meta is taking an open approach.” The Azure cloud computing platform from Microsoft already has Meta as a client. In addition, Microsoft announced during the virtual conference called Inspire that it will add a $30 monthly price for each user of its leading generative AI tool, Microsoft 365 Copilot, to the fees businesses already pay for Microsoft services.
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