This Chinese tech company will use Meta’s Llama 2 AI language model to develop products

Meta recently unveiled Llama 2, its open-source large language model (LLM) which is designed to power products and services, such as chatbots. Facebook’s parent company announced that it was partnering with Microsoft to make it available to partners. Now, China-based Alibaba Cloud said that it is bringing Meta’s AI model to its clients.

Alibaba’s cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise that will allow its Chinese business users to develop programs using the model.

“Today, Alibaba Cloud has launched the first training and deployment solution for the entire Llama2 series in China, welcoming all developers to create customised large models on Alibaba Cloud,” Alibaba Cloud said.

The announcement comes at a time when the US is looking to restrict Chinese companies’ access to US-developed technologies related to AI. Meanwhile, Meta-owned platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, have been banned in China but the move could bring some advantage for the US tech giant.

Chinese companies are also developing their own AI models that can rival those developed by US tech companies.

Meta’s Llama 2 model
Llama 2 is the sequel to Llama and is claimed to offer a significantly improved performance owing to its training on a combination of publicly available data. There are two versions of Llama 2: Llama 2 and Llama 2-Chat, which is specifically designed for two-way conversations. Meta also said that Llama 2 exhibits biases in specific areas.

OpenAI is also running applications on GPT-4 LLMs and Google also announced at I/O 2023 its PaLM 2. Google claimed that this model has improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities. Google said that model is trained on 100 languages and performs a broad range of tasks.

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Meta recently unveiled Llama 2, its open-source large language model (LLM) which is designed to power products and services, such as chatbots. Facebook’s parent company announced that it was partnering with Microsoft to make it available to partners. Now, China-based Alibaba Cloud said that it is bringing Meta’s AI model to its clients.

Alibaba’s cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise that will allow its Chinese business users to develop programs using the model.

“Today, Alibaba Cloud has launched the first training and deployment solution for the entire Llama2 series in China, welcoming all developers to create customised large models on Alibaba Cloud,” Alibaba Cloud said.

The announcement comes at a time when the US is looking to restrict Chinese companies’ access to US-developed technologies related to AI. Meanwhile, Meta-owned platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, have been banned in China but the move could bring some advantage for the US tech giant.

Chinese companies are also developing their own AI models that can rival those developed by US tech companies.

Meta’s Llama 2 model
Llama 2 is the sequel to Llama and is claimed to offer a significantly improved performance owing to its training on a combination of publicly available data. There are two versions of Llama 2: Llama 2 and Llama 2-Chat, which is specifically designed for two-way conversations. Meta also said that Llama 2 exhibits biases in specific areas.

OpenAI is also running applications on GPT-4 LLMs and Google also announced at I/O 2023 its PaLM 2. Google claimed that this model has improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities. Google said that model is trained on 100 languages and performs a broad range of tasks.

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