Microsoft and Meta have announced that they are working together to develop a new AI language model. Designed as a large language model (LLM), Llama 2 will be strengthened by Microsoft’s partnership. So what will the new language model look like?
Microsoft and Meta to develop Llama 2 together
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed the development of Llama 2 in his latest post on Facebook. Zuckerberg said that Llama 2 will be trained with almost 40 percent more data and that there will be improvements on the architectural side.
For those who don’t know, Llama was a language model introduced by Meta in February this year. Trained on a large dataset of text and code, the artificial intelligence model can be used for tasks such as text generation, translation, question answering and language extraction.
The development of Llama 2 with Microsoft is quite remarkable. The new model, which will use the Microsoft Azure artificial intelligence catalogue, will also be supported on Windows systems. This will be of great help to developers working in the field of artificial intelligence.
Llama’s first language model was only open to certain customers. However, Meta wants to widen the target audience for the new model and offer it commercially. Whether it will be available to end users remains to be seen.
Llama 2 looks set to usher in a new era in the development of artificial intelligence. The partnership between Microsoft and Meta will accelerate the adoption of large language models.
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