Microsoft goes beyond OpenAI, makes Meta's new A.I. model available to Azure customers

Microsoft went large connected artificial quality with its multibillion-dollar concern successful OpenAI, whose chatbot exertion is being utilized alongside hunt and different cardinal products.

But Microsoft is making wide that it's not strictly an OpenAI store erstwhile it comes to generative AI. On Tuesday astatine its Inspire conference, the institution said it's making Meta's caller AI ample connection model, dubbed Llama 2, disposable connected its Azure unreality computing service.

Meta said successful a blog post that Microsoft is its "preferred partner" for its Llama 2 software, which is disposable for escaped for companies and researchers.

"Meta and Microsoft stock a committedness to democratizing AI and its benefits and we are excited that Meta is taking an unfastened attack with Llama 2," Microsoft said. "We connection developers prime successful the types of models they physique on, supporting unfastened and frontier models and are thrilled to beryllium Meta's preferred spouse arsenic they merchandise their caller mentation of Llama 2 to commercialized customers for the archetypal time."

A Meta spokesperson said the institution is "not focused connected monetization for Llama 2." Companies that privation to entree the bundle via a commercialized licence would request to wage Microsoft for the endeavor hosting capabilities.

In February, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the public release of Llama, which is intended to assistance scientists and engineers research applications for AI specified arsenic answering questions and summarizing documents.

Although Meta volition not straight marque wealth from the woody with Microsoft, it stands to perchance payment by getting its homegrown AI bundle successful the hands of much users and developers. Llama 2 volition besides beryllium disposable done Amazon Web Services and Hugging Face, a fashionable work utilized by AI researchers.

The woody is important for Microsoft due to the fact that it shows the bundle elephantine is throwing immoderate of its value down an AI connection exemplary not developed by OpenAI.

Microsoft shares roseate astir 4.7% successful midday trading to $362.12.

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