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February 24, 2023 | 2:02 p.m
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms announced Friday that it is releasing a new large-scale language model based on artificial intelligence aimed at the research community, making it the latest company to join the AI race.
The battle for AI tech dominance, which has existed in the background until recently, began late last year with the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI ChatGPT, prompting tech heavyweights from Alphabet to China’s Baidu to create their own offerings .
Metas LLaMA, short for Large Language Model Meta AI, will be available to researchers and entities associated with government, civil society and academia under a non-commercial license, a blog said.
The company provides users with the underlying code to optimize the model and use it for research-related use cases. The model, which Meta says requires “far less” computing power, is trained on 20 languages, with a focus on languages with Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
Meta said this AI model requires “far less” processing power and is trained on 20 languages, with a focus on languages with Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.AP
“Today’s announcement by Meta appears to be a step to test their generative AI capabilities so they can implement them into their products in the future,” said Gil Luria, Senior Software Analyst at DA Davidson.
“Generative AI is a new application of AI that Meta has less experience with, but is clearly important to the future of their company.”
AI has emerged as a bright spot for investment in the tech industry, whose slowing growth has led to widespread layoffs and a slashing of experimental bets. Meanwhile, Alphabet’s Microsoft, Baidu and Google are integrating their respective advanced AI language engines into mass products like search.
Meta released the large language model OPT-175B in May last year, also aimed at researchers, and forming the basis of a new iteration of its chatbot, BlenderBot.
It later launched a model called Galactica, which it said could write scientific articles and solve math problems, but its demo was later shelved because it repeatedly generated authoritative-sounding content.
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