2023-07-20 08:18:50
Meta is opening chatbot technology to commercial use through Microsoft, and does not plan to charge for its generative AI tool Llama 2. Companies offering Llama 2 include Amazon, Hugging Face.
Meta Platforms Inc. makes its wide-language artificial intelligence model, Llama 2, available for commercial use through partnerships with major cloud service providers, including Microsoft Corp. Meta does not charge for access or use of the model it developed, the company said. On the contrary, by opening up the technology to other companies, Meta says it will benefit from the improvements that can be made when more developers use it, stress test it, and identify problems with it.
By making the Grand Language Model (LLM) more widely available, Meta is establishing itself alongside other tech giants as a key player in the AI arms race. Meta is spending record sums on AI infrastructure, and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said integrating AI enhancements into all of the company’s products and algorithms is a priority.
Meta covered the cost of training the models. Cloud service providers, including Microsoft, Amazon.com Inc., and Hugging Face, host the tools and provide the computing power to operate them.
Meta said it had no comment on whether Microsoft would charge for Llama 2 access through its cloud and Windows services. An Amazon spokesperson said the company doesn’t charge for access to the model and customers only pay for using SageMaker, its toolkit for machine learning developers. Microsoft and Hugging Face did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The commercial launch of Llama 2 is the first project to come out of the company’s Generative AI Group, a new team formed in February. To prepare for the launch of the new model, Meta employees and third parties conducted security tests called “red team drills”. This is a separate model from the one Meta uses for its own products.
“The pacing was incredible – incredibly fast decision-making, very tight loops, very targeted execution to culminate in this Llama 2 moment,” said Ahmad Al Dahle, VP of Meta’s Generative AI Group. “We had over a hundred thousand requests for the Llama 1. So we went back to the drawing board, we got our teams together and we made a ton of investments in alignment, research and safety in order to build a model that we considered ready.”
This partnership brings Meta closer to Microsoft, which has established itself thanks to its investment and its technological partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, which charges access to its model.
Source : Microsoft
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