Microsoft and Meta team up on AI language model for commercial use

Microsoft Corp.
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plans to release a new version of Meta Platforms Inc.’s
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AI language model that will make the software available to companies for the first time. Meta’s AI model, called Llama 2, will be free and available to developers building software on Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing platform, the companies said in a statement announcing the partnership Tuesday. Meta has released an earlier version of Llama to academics, but hadn’t made it available for commercial use.