5 things you should know about Meta’s ChatGPT-rival, AI platform LLaMA
Facebook's parent company Meta might have been late to the AI party, but it has still managed to make a grand entry. Yesterday night, the company announced that its large language platform LLaMA will be made open-source and entirely free for research and commercial purposes, taking a similar approach to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The move was announced during Microsoft's Inspire event, where Meta also revealed its partnership with Microsoft, and extended its support for products such as Azure and Windows. And these are the 5 important things you should know about Meta's AI platform.
In February, Meta announced its LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) platform, a large language model built on 65 billion parameters. At the time of its announcement, Meta revealed that the platform was designed to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of generative AI. Acknowledging it as a smaller foundation model, the company claimed that for many researchers trying to understand generative AI, smaller models are more desirable as “it requires far less computing power and resources to test new approaches, validate others' work, and explore new use cases”.
Recently, the company released its LLaMA 2 platform.
At the Microsoft Inspire event, Meta announced its partnership with the Windows maker. Under this collaboration, Meta will extend the capabilities of its LLaMA 2 platform to Microsoft's Azure and Windows. In an announcement, Microsoft said, “Llama 2 is designed to enable developers and organizations to build generative AI-powered tools and experiences…We offer developers choice in the types of models they build on, supporting open and frontier models, and are thrilled to be Meta's preferred partner as they release their new version
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