Llama 2, here are the earnings of Meta and Microsoft with the alliance on AI
Microsoft, which generously funded OpenAI for the development of ChatGpt, also partnered with Zuckerberg's Meta for Llama 2, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that is open source and free for research and commercial use. Here's what they get
From competitor to friend. Meta announced it has partnered with Microsoft to launch Llama 2, a new open source artificial intelligence (AI) model that is free for research and commercial use. The Redmond giant, grappling with some troubles with the European Union , is also one of the main financiers and partners of rival OpenAI, the software house that developed ChatGpt.
ZUCKERBERG'S ANNOUNCEMENT
“We are collaborating with Microsoft to introduce Llama 2, the next generation of our large open source language model. Llama 2 will be available free for research and commercial use." Mark Zuckerberg himself gave the news in a post on Facebook:
WHY META'S AI IS DIFFERENT FROM CHATGPT AND BARD
While OpenAI and Google made ChatGpt and Bard, respectively, two chatbots with impressively large language models that mimic human creativity and experience, available to the general public, Meta has not released generative AI products directly to consumers. Instead, he developed Llama, a language model specially made for researchers, so they could perfect it.
In fact, Llama is open source, which means that its internal mechanisms are available to everyone and can be modified, unlike the AIs of OpenAI and Google. These models, including OpenAI's GPT-4, are closed and customers using them are denied access to their programming code or detailed answers about how their data is handled.
WHY META OPEN SOURCE IS BETTER ACCORDING TO
“Open source – explained Zuckerberg in the post – promotes innovation because it allows a greater number of developers to build with new technologies. It also improves security because when software is open, more people can review it to identify and fix potential problems. I think progress would be greater if the ecosystem were more open, and that's why we're launching Llama 2."
Making AI open source models available free of charge, for the father of Facebook, means "getting benefits for everyone".
“Giving companies, startups, entrepreneurs and researchers access to tools developed on a scale that would be difficult to build on their own, supported by computing power they could not otherwise access, will open up a world of opportunities for them to experiment , innovate in exciting ways and ultimately reap economic and social benefits,” reads the Meta release .
HOW IS LLAMA 2 MADE?
Llama 2 is, therefore, an open model and available free of charge for both research and commercial use. “It has been pre-trained on 40% more data than Llama 1 – wrote the CEO of Meta – and improvements have been made to its architecture”.
To refine the models, Meta collected “more than 1 million human annotations and applied supervised refinement and reinforcement learning with human feedback, with excellent results in terms of safety and quality”.
Zuckerberg said these templates can be downloaded directly or through a partnership that makes them available on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform "alongside Microsoft content and security tools." But despite the fact that Bill Gates' company is defined by Meta as "the preferred partner", Llama 2 is also available through Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hugging Face (a startup on which Microsoft is betting) and other suppliers.
BUT WHAT DO META AND MICROSOFT GET?
One aspect that has not been disclosed is the financial terms of the partnership. In fact, the Big Techs limited themselves to declaring that the common goal is "to democratize access to AI models currently available" and a Meta spokesman said that the company "is not focused on monetizing Llama 2" and that businesses will have to pay Microsoft for enterprise hosting features.
However, as CNBC observes, "even if Meta will not directly profit from the agreement with Microsoft, it will potentially benefit from the fact that its home-grown artificial intelligence software will be in the hands of a greater number of users and developers".
As a social media company, adds the Guardian quoting Zuckerberg's words to investors in April, “Meta has the most to gain with effective crowd-sourcing to reduce infrastructure costs and maximize the creation of new consumer-facing tools that could attract people to its ad-supported services rather than charging for access to its models”.
Microsoft, on the other hand, which with the agreement demonstrates its willingness to expand its AI platform even beyond OpenAI, yesterday saw its shares rise by 4%, reaching the record figure of $359.49, says the Wall Street Journal , recalling that the stock is up 50% this year.
Additionally, the company announced it will charge companies $30 per person per month for access to an AI assistant for Microsoft 365, setting a test of how much consumers will pay for AI tools. The rate, in fact, observes the WSJ , "is more than double that currently applied by Microsoft for the least expensive version of the productivity software, a sign of the value that the tech giant sees in investments in artificial intelligence". Microsoft also announced that it will charge companies $5 per user per month to access Bing Chat Enterprise if they are not customers.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/llama-2-meta-e-microsoft/ on Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:34:02 +0000.