meta The company said Tuesday it is releasing a commercial version of its open-source artificial intelligence model Llama, providing a powerful free alternative to expensive proprietary models sold to start-ups and other businesses. OpenAI And Google,
The new version of the model, called llama 2will be delivered by Microsoft through it Blue The cloud service and will run on the Windows operating system, Meta said in a blog post, referring to Microsoft as “our preferred partner” for the release.
The model, which META previously provided only to select academics for research purposes, will also be made available for direct download and through Amazon Web ServicesHugging Faces and other providers, according to a blog post and a separate Facebook post from the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg,
“Open source fosters innovation because it enables many developers to build with new technology,” Zuckerberg wrote. “I believe that more progress would have been made if the ecosystem was more open.”
refine a model llama Widely available and free for businesses to tackle threats to erode established early dominance in emerging market for generative oh Software from players such as OpenAI, which Microsoft supports and whose models it already offers to business customers through Azure.
The first Llama was already competitive with the models that power OpenAI chatgpt and google forage The chatbot, Zuckerberg said, while the new Llama has been trained on 40 percent more data than its predecessor, has been given more than 1 million annotations by humans to fine-tune the quality of its output.
“The commercial llama could change the picture,” said Amjad Massad, chief executive officer of software developer platform Replit. He said that more than 80 percent of projects out there use OpenAI’s model.
“Any incremental improvement in the open-source model is going to eat away at the closed-source model’s market share because you can run them cheaper and have fewer dependencies,” Massad said.
The announcement follows plans from Microsoft’s biggest cloud rivals, Alphabet’s Google and AmazonProviding a range of AI models for business customers to choose from.
For example, Amazon is building marketing reach from high-profile startups to cloud-AI anthropic – In addition to its family of Titan models. Similarly, Google has said it plans to make Cloud and other models available to its Cloud customers.
So far, Microsoft has focused on making technology from OpenAI available in Azure.
When asked why Microsoft would support an offering that could reduce the value of OpenAI, a Microsoft spokesperson said that giving developers a choice in the type of model they use is a cloud platform for AI work. As will help in increasing your status.
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For Meta, a rich open-source ecosystem of AI technology built using its models could disrupt rivals’ plans to earn revenue from their proprietary technology, the value of which would evaporate if developers could use equally powerful tools for free. Can use open-source systems.
A leaked internal Google memo titled “We don’t have a moat, and neither does OpenAI” was published in May after the tech world predicted such a scenario.
Meta is also betting that it will benefit from the advances, bug fixes and products that develop from its model that could become the default for AI innovation, as it has done over the past several years with its widely adopted Done with open source AI framework. Pyotorch.
As a social media company, Zuckerberg told investors in April, Meta would benefit more from effectively crowdsourcing methods to reduce infrastructure costs and maximize the creation of new consumer-facing tools that could attract people to its advertising-supported services. Charging a fee for access to your models.
“Unlike some of the other companies in this space, we’re not selling a cloud computing service, where we try to own the various software infrastructure we’re building,” Zuckerberg said.
“For us, it would be better if the industry standardized on the basic tools we are using and so we can benefit from improvements made by others.”
However, releasing llamas into the wild also comes with risks, as it supercharges the ease with which unscrupulous actors can create products regardless of safety controls.
In April, Stanford researchers scrapped a chatbot they had previously built for $600 using a version of the llama model because it generated distasteful text.
Meta executives say they believe public releases of technologies actually reduce security risks by harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to identify problems and build resilience into the system.
The company also says it has created an “acceptable use” policy for commercial llamas that prohibits “certain use cases,” including violence, terrorism, child abuse, and other criminal activities.
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