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Meta releases Llama 2 weights
Commercially usable downloadable weights broaden who can run and adapt language models.
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OCCURRED18 Jul 2023
PUBLIC ACCOUNT18 Jul 2023
EVIDENCEFirst-party account
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Date of the original developer release announcement.
Meta released Llama 2 weights for research and commercial use under its community licence. Organizations could run and adapt the models themselves rather than relying solely on a hosted model provider. Meta ↗
Sources & attribution
- Organizational disclosure 18 Jul 2023llama 2 release announcement ↗
Meta. Original developer announcement.