Meta, formerly known as Facebook, plans to release a commercial version of LLaMA, an open-source large-scale language model (LLM) that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text, images, and code.
LLaMA, short for Large Language Model Meta AI, was announced in February as a small foundational model and made available to researchers and academics.
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Now, the Financial Times reports that Meta is ready to release a commercial version of this model, allowing developers and companies to build applications using the base model.
Because LLaMA is an open-source AI technology, commercial access to LLaMA gives companies of all sizes the opportunity to adapt and improve AI, accelerating innovation across a variety of disciplines and potentially yielding more robust models. There is a nature.
ChatGPT’s LLM, GPT-3.5, has been confirmed to have 175 billion parameters, while Meta’s LLaMA is available with 7, 13, 33, and 65 billion parameters. OpenAI has not disclosed how many parameters GPT-4 will have, but it is estimated that there are over 1 trillion parameters. The more parameters, the better the model can understand the input and produce the appropriate output.
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Today, OpenAI is leading the AI race with ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that sparked the generative AI revolution with its November release, as a sprinter. Microsoft has invested heavily in OpenAI. The tech giant uses his GPT-4 technology to power the revamped AI-powered Bing and Image Creator. Google has its own AI chatbot, Bard, and its own LLM. None of these systems are open source.
Open source AI models already exist, but Meta’s LLaMA is larger than many open source LLMs available on the market and the fact that it comes from one of the largest technology companies makes it less commercially viable. Getting started is still an important step. in the world.
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The launch means Meta is in direct competition with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google, and that competition could represent a major breakthrough in the AI space. Closed or proprietary software, like that used by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has drawn criticism over transparency and security.
