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On July 18th, Meta and Microsoft announced their collaboration to launch the open-source language model, "Llama 2," which will later appear on the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Azure cloud computing platform.

The two teams announced the partnership, stating that Llama 2 is now available for free for research and commercial use, and work is being done to improve it to also be runnable on Windows.

We believe an open approach is the right one for the development of today's Al models.

Today, we're releasing Llama 2, the next generation of Meta's open source Large Language Model, available for free for research & commercial use.

Meta claimed that Llama 2 has been trained on a larger amount – 40% more – of publicly available data sources on the internet, and can process twice the amount of data that Llama 1 was able to process.

The company also stated that Llama 2 outperforms many competing open-source large language models (LLMs) when it comes to encoding, efficiency, and inference, as well as performance in knowledge tests. However, Meta acknowledged that Llama is not as efficient as its competitors, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, according to one of their research papers.

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