Meta Releases LLaMA 2: Free For Commercial Use

Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.

Originally published on Towards AI.

Llama 2, the next generation of our open-source large language model

This will be a quick one, Meta releases the new version of LLaMA. This version will be known as LLaMA 2 and will be free for both research and commercial use. This is a release from Meta and Microsoft together.

I think Microsoft wants to corner all 3rd party LLMs and keep them as SaaS on their own platform as a commercial offering. Now OpenAI and LLaMA both will be part of the Microsoft offerings.

We’re including model weights and starting code for the pretrained model and conversational fine-tuned versions too

This means no more having to go to 4chan to get weights… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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