AIster · The ChatGPT shock · Launches
Meta releases Llama 2 for commercial use
Meta turned open weights from an accident into a deliberate strategy
Key facts
- Date
- 18 Jul 2023
- Era
- The ChatGPT shock
- Interest
- Launches
- Threads
- Open vs closed
- Who
- Meta, with Microsoft as preferred partner
- Licence
- Free for research and commercial use under Meta's own licence
- Available on
- Azure, AWS, Hugging Face and others
Meta released Llama 2 free for research and commercial use, with model weights (the trained files anyone can download) for both pretrained and chat-tuned versions. Microsoft was named preferred partner, and the models were also offered through AWS and Hugging Face.
Sources
- Meta, Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama, 2023-07-18
- arXiv, Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models, 2023-07-18