The logo of Meta Platforms' business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022.
REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 24 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) on Thursday said it would release an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to assist in writing computer code, furthering its push into the new technology.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has released a flurry of AI models, mostly free, this year, including an open-source language model, called Llama, that poses a serious challenge to proprietary models sold by Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google.
The new AI model is built on top of Meta's latest Llama 2 language model and will be available in different configurations, the company said, as it gears up to compete with Microsoft's code-writing tool GitHub Copilot.
Code Llama supports the popular coding languages like Python, Java and C++ and is not recommended for general text tasks, Meta said.
Persons:
Yves Herman, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta, Zaheer Kachwala, Shweta Agarwal
Organizations:
REUTERS, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Thomson
Locations:
Brussels, Belgium, Bengaluru