[LINK] New Meta & Microsoft Llama 2 AI .. and It's Open Source

[Stephen Loosley]

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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