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Mark Zuckerberg & Meta to Release Commercial Version of its AI/LLM (LLaMA) In Effort to Catch Rivals

Hello everyone. I have some very exciting news to share with you today. Mark Zuckerberg & Meta are poised to release a commercial version of LLaMA in the near future. This is huge for us!

The current generation of LLaMA is a non-commercial license for research use only. This means the large community behind it has been unable to utilize it in wider businesses applications of their own, hindering innovation.

With this, Mark may open up a channel for another surge in open-source AI that accelerates us forward, (hopefully) ahead of our other mutual competitors of Google, OpenAI, etc.

You should read the full article here, but I will leave you with highlights below.

Meta released its own language model to researchers and academics earlier this year, but the new version will be more widely available and customisable by companies © FT montage/Bloomberg/Dreamstime

Meta is poised to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model, allowing start-ups and businesses to build custom software on top of the technology.

The move will allow Meta to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google, which are surging ahead in the race to develop generative AI. The software, which can create text, images and code, is powered by large language models (LLMs) that are trained on huge amounts of data and require vast computing power.

Meta released its own language model, known as LLaMA, to researchers and academics earlier this year, but the new version will be more widely available and customisable by companies, three people familiar with the plans said. The release is expected imminently, one of the people said.

Meta says its LLMs are “open-source”, by which it means details of the new model will be released publicly. This contrasts with the approach of competitors such as OpenAI, whose latest model 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.

“The competitive landscape of AI is going to completely change in the coming months, in the coming weeks maybe, when there will be open source platforms that are actually as good as the ones that are not,” vice-president and chief AI scientist at Meta, Yann LeCun, said at a conference in Aix-en-Provence last Saturday.

Meta’s impending release comes as a race among Silicon Valley tech groups to establish themselves as dominant AI participants is heating up.

The/CUT (TLDR)

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is set to shake up the AI race with the release of a commercially available version of their language model, LLaMA. The move is poised to democratize AI by making the model open-source and customizable by startups and businesses, fostering a broader community of innovation. As the AI landscape heats up with giants like OpenAI and Google, Meta’s decision encourages an open view of the future, one in which collaboration with LLMs could redefine the bounds of technology.

What do you think about this news? How do you feel about Zuck making LLaMA commercially available? Do you have any projects you plan to build with this knowledge?

Only time will tell how honest he is in this release. For now, we’ll have to be patient and see how it all unfolds.

Best case scenario - it encourages other big tech companies to follow, accelerating our journey to SGI/AGI. Worst case scenario - we get a massive influx of cool new LLaMA models.

It’s a win for us either way! We take those.

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