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• Meta announced general availability of Llama 2, the next generation of its open source LLM, which is free for research and commercial use.

• Meta is challenging the market dominance of OpenAI, with a radically different business model based on the open-source availability of its technology.

Meta recently released Llama 2, the latest version of its open-source large language model (LLM), which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate text, images, and code. Llama was first released in February 2023 as a collection of foundation models, and it was made available exclusively to researchers. Now, Meta has just released the commercial version of the LLM, which will enable developers and businesses of all sizes to build applications. Because the technology is open source, access to Llama gives anyone the opportunity to improve the AI, accelerating technological innovation. By contrast, OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a so-called ‘black box’ in which the data and code used to build the model are not available to third parties.

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