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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesThe AI debate splitting the tech world, explained. Last week, Meta made a game-changing move in the world of AI.
At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away, for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model, Llama 2. That means other companies can now use Meta’s Llama 2 model, which some technologists say is comparable to ChatGPT in its capabilities, to build their
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