Meta May Make LLaMA Commercially Available Despite Lawmaker Inquiries

Meta, the company behind Facebook, is reportedly making its open-source Language Model for Multi-Domain Applications (LLaMA) commercially available. Currently only accessible to researchers under a case-by-case research license, the next version of LLaMA will be available to developers around the world. This comes despite lawmaker inquiries in the US, including a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg questioning the leak of LLaMA model weights to 4chan. Meta is known for being the most open of the Big Tech companies and has reaffirmed its commitment to an open science-based approach to AI research, including generative AI across all its products. This decision on LLaMA is a timely one, with Congress prioritizing the regulation of artificial intelligence, while open-source AI sees an influx of new Language Model Models.