Indrajit S Saluja
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook owner Meta on July 19 released a new and free-of-charge version of its artificial intelligence model, marking a play against ChatGPT-maker Open AI and Google.
Open AI and Google have developed impressive large language models that serve as the foundations of the ChatGPT and Bard chatbots, which have drawn excitement with their capabilities to mimic human creativity and expertise.
Meta meanwhile has avoided releasing generative AI products straight to the consumer, and instead developed Llama, a language model specifically developed for researchers so that they could perfect it.
Crucially, Llama is open-source, meaning that its inner workings are available to all to be tinkered with and modified, unlike the headline-grabbing AIs developed by OpenAI and Google.
