Massive AI News — February 2023
AI Updates From Meta, Snap, Spotify, McDonalds, Elon Musk & Others
We all know that 2023 is the year of Artificial Intelligence. February came to a close and it was an exciting month for the AI space. Let’s take a look back at the incredible news that made headlines only within the last month.
This story summarizes some groundbreaking innovations from Meta and Alphabet, hilarious news from Mcdonald's, and some interesting statements from Elon Musk — all around Artificial Intelligence.
Meta — Announcing LLaMA
We start with Meta, the mother company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. On February 24th Meta announced its public release of LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI), a large language model & generator for research.
It's not a chatbot anyone can talk to, but targets researchers to democratize access and analyze the problems of AI language models. LLaMA is not a single system but consists of different-sized models running under a noncommercial license. Access is granted to research groups like universities, NGOs, and industry labs. [1]
Only a couple of days later, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Meta will create a product group focussing on AI solutions and generative AI. The target is to build…
