LLaMA 2: Meta presents new AI language model
The US technology company Meta has presented a new version of its AI language model. LLaMA 2 is open source and has roughly the same performance as GPT-3.5.
According to Meta's own information, the artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly more powerful than in the first version. In benchmarks, it is roughly on a par with OpenAI's GPT-3.5, but far behind the new GPT-4. Further details can be found in Meta's research report.
With its open source model, Meta is swimming against the tide of other major AI suppliers such as OpenAI and Google. The advantage of this is that companies can further develop LLaMA 2 themselves. However, this raises security concerns. The AI could be misused for dubious purposes, such as disinformation or spam.
What Meta does not reveal is where the training data for LLaMA 2 comes from. This is also a source of criticism, as such data often comes from the internet without authorisation. In Meta's case, it could also come from the social networks Facebook and Instagram's own databases.
Own image generator
On Monday, Meta had already presented an AI product: CM3Leon, a generative AI model for image generation and image description. It can therefore do text-to-image and image-to-text. For example, an image can be fed into the AI and then modified using a text command.
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