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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has recently announced that it is open-sourcing its large language model (LLM) called LLaMA 2, making it free for commercial and research use. This move is seen as a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the popular chatbot powered by the GPT-4 model, which is not open-sourced and requires a subscription fee to access.
LLaMA 2 is a generative AI model that can produce natural language texts based on a given input or prompt. It can be used for various applications such as chatbots, content creation, summarization, translation, and more. LLaMA 2 is the second version of Meta’s LLM, which was first released in February 2023. According to Meta, LLaMA 2 was trained on 40% more data than LLaMA 1, which includes information from “publicly available online data sources”. It also claims that it “outperforms” other LLMs like Falcon and MPT when it comes to reasoning, coding, proficiency, and knowledge tests.
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