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Welcome back to 10X AI: a weekly look at beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.
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Here are this week’s AI developments.
1. Meta’s Llama 2 is out
Last week, I briefly mentioned Llama 2 in the “coming soon” category.
Well, it is officially here now!
Llama 2 is the open-source successor to Llama 1, trained on 40% more data and with double the context length. There are a few points that make it a big deal:
It’s licensed for free commercial use (in addition to just research). Third parties can build upon its architecture, so we should expect an explosion of spin-off models and use cases.
It’s currently the best-performing open-source LLM, with the 70 billion parameter model beating competitors across multiple benchmarks:
Another notable development is the close partnership between Meta and Microsoft to make Llama 2 available to developers within the Microsoft Azure platform.
For a thorough (and quite technical) deep dive, check out “Lla…