Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad.

Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because ‘Zuck has balls,’ a former top Facebook engineer says::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad.

  • @Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    IIRC you could apply as a credentialed academic researcher but not as a member of the general public, but i could be wrong about that.

    • ijeffEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      They didn’t check credentials, but it was indeed for research purposes. Folks were getting access if they said they were a student or researcher.