Meta’s New ChatGPT Competitor Is Llama 2

ChatGPT is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) generative AI chatbots around, and its underlying GPT language model powers many other services. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has now partnered with Microsoft to create an alternative: Llama 2.

Llama was initially released in February 2023 as a large language model, but unlike the GPT model that powers ChatGPT and Bing Chat, it wasn’t intended as a general-purpose chatbot. Instead, it was provided under a noncommercial license and intended for research purposes, such as analyzing datasets, for groups like…