Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms said Friday it was rolling out a major new AI language model aimed toward the research community, becoming the latest company to hitch the AI race.
The battle for supremacy in the AI technology space, which until recently had been in the background, began late last yr with the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI ChatGPT and prompted tech giants from Alphabet to China’s Baidu to create their very own offerings.
LLaMA Meta, short for Large Language Model Meta AI, will probably be available under a non-commercial license to researchers and entities related to government, civil society and academia. he said on the blog.
The corporate will make the source code available to users to refine the model and use it in research use cases. The model, which Meta says requires “much less” processing power, is trained in 20 languages, with an emphasis on Latin- and Cyrillic-script languages.
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“Today’s Meta announcement appears to be a step towards testing their generative AI capabilities in order that they can implement them of their products in the future,” said Gil Luria, Senior Software Analyst at DA Davidson.
“Generative AI is a new AI application that Meta has less experience with, but is clearly vital to the future of their business.”
Artificial intelligence has grow to be a vibrant spot for investment in the technology industry, whose slow growth has led to mass layoffs and reductions in experimental plants. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Baidu and Alphabet’s Google are integrating their advanced AI language engines into more massive products like search.
Last May, Meta released a large OPT-175B language model, also aimed toward researchers, which became the basis for a new iteration of its BlenderBot chatbot.
He later launched a model called Galactica, which he claimed could write scientific papers and solve math problems, but his demo was later removed since it repeatedly generated authoritative-sounding content.