#Meta AI announced the release of Llama 2, the latest update to its large language artificial intelligence (AI) model, on July 18.

The company said in an additional #Twitter comment:

“We believe an open approach with broad accessibility is the right one for the development of today’s Al models…. Today, we’re releasing #Llama 2 … available for free for research & commercial use.”

The new release exceeds Llama 1 in many ways. Llama 2 is trained on 40% more data than its predecessor, has greater context lengths, uses models with up to 70 billion parameters, and features pre-trained models trained on 2 trillion tokens.