“OpenAI and Google Team Up on META Llama 2: An Open-Source AI Model vs. Bard

META open-source artificial intelligence model Llam 2

META has previously offered a model just for select scholars to use it for research.

META releases commercial versions of its open-source artificial Intelligence model, Llama.

The company announced on Tuesday. The model will give entrepreneurs and businesses alike the option of a free replacement to an expensive model that is sold as proprietary by OpenAI as well as Google.

The updated version, known as Llama 2, will be released through Microsoft via the Azure cloud service. The model is compatible with Windows.

Windows operating system. META announced in an announcement on its website that cited Microsoft as “our partner of choice” to release the software.

In a blog entry written by META the CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a separate Facebook blog post,

The model that META initially only offered to select researchers for research reasons is now accessible for direct download via Amazon Web Services, Hugging Face as well as other service providers. The model will be available soon.

“Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technologies,” Zuckerberg said in his. “I believe that if the ecosystem is more open, it will unlock more progress.”

 

The idea of making cutting-edge models such as Llama readily available at no cost to companies is threatening to lose the dominant position established in the emerging market for software that generates AI from players such as OpenAI that Microsoft supports and whose models are already available to commercial customers via Azure.

The initial Llama had already been in the same league as the models that run OpenAI’s ChatGPT as well as Google’s Bard chatbot.

However, the newly developed Llama is based on 40% more data than the predecessor and has over 1 million human annotations to boost the performance of its output. with. , Zuckerberg said.

“Commercial Llama can change the picture,” claimed Amjad Masad who is chief executive of the platform for software developers, Replit, and said that over 80 percent of the projects they run utilize OpenAI’s algorithms.

“Any incremental improvement in open-source models is eating away at the market share of closed-source models because you can run them cheaper and have less dependency,” Massad stated.

The announcement is in line with plans announced by Microsoft’s top cloud rivals Google’s Alphabet and Google and Amazon in order to provide an array of AI models for business customers to select from.

Amazon is one example.

It is able to market cloud AI by a well-known company Anthropic and its own line of Titan models. Google also has stated that it will provide cloud services and models accessible to cloud users.

As of now, Microsoft has focused on making OpenAI technologies OpenAI accessible in Azure.

In response to a question about explaining why Microsoft will support an option that could diminish the benefits of OpenAI.

The spokesperson for the company said Microsoft spokesperson stated that allowing developers to choose the AI models they choose to use will aid in expanding its role as the preferred cloud platform to do AI work.

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In the case of META an open-source system of AI technology built on the models it has developed could deter rivals in their plans to market their proprietary technologies and the worth of that technology will diminish if the developers can utilize equally robust open-source platforms at no cost.

A leaked internal Google memo, titled “We have no moot, and neither does OpenAI,” brought a lot of attention to the technology world back in May, when it warned of such a scenario.