Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free.
Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the cost of developing Llama 3.1 but Zuckerberg recently told investors that his company is spending billions on AI development.
Through this latest release, Meta is showing that the closed approach favored by most AI companies is not the only way to develop AI. But the company is also putting itself at the center of debate around the dangers posed by releasing AI without controls. Meta trains Llama in a way that prevents the model from producing harmful output by default, but the model can be modified to remove such safeguards.
Meta says that Llama 3.1 is as clever and useful as…
