Llama 2 is a Major Milestone for Open-Source AI 

Meta and Microsoft's Collaboration on Llama 2 is a Major Milestone for Open-Source AI

They began working together by integrating PyTorch and ONNX Runtime to improve the development experience for PyTorch on Azure.

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Llama 2 is the latest addition to the expanding catalogue of pre-made big AI models available in Azure.

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Azure offers strong capabilities for inference, training, and fine-tuning, ensuring that AI models are created and used properly.

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The collaboration between Meta and Microsoft goes beyond AI and touches on a number of technological and metaverse-related areas.

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For Meta and Microsoft, developing and deploying AI models responsibly is still a top focus.

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The decision by Meta to make Llama 2 an open-source model encourages openness, accessibility, and creativity.

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