Meta opens up AI model for commercial use

Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is offering its artificial intelligence language model Llama 2 for commercial use in collaboration with major cloud providers including Microsoft. In a statement made by Meta, it was stated that the new version of Llama 2 will be made available for free as open source for research and commercial use. In the statement, it was conveyed that the partnership with Microsoft as the preferred partner for Llama 2 has been taken to the next level, emphasizing that efforts in the field of generative artificial intelligence have been expanded. In the statement, it was shared that starting today, Llama 2 will be available in the "Azure AI" model catalog and will allow developers using Microsoft Azure to take advantage of cloud-native tools for content filtering and security features. It was noted in the statement that Llama 2 is optimized to run natively on Windows, and that it will provide developers with a seamless workflow while delivering generative artificial intelligence experiences to customers on different platforms. In the statement, it was announced that Llama 2 will also be offered through Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hugging Face, and other providers.