Meta's new Code Llama 70B takes aim at Github's Copilot — it's far better than the original 5-month old Code Llama but I can't help but wonder if devs will love it

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Meta AI has released a new version of its advanced code generation model, Code Llama 70B. One of the largest open-source AI models for code generation, the new platform is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, making it both significantly faster and more accurate.

Code Llama 70B has been trained on 500 billion tokens of code and code-related data, and has a large context window of 100,000 tokens, allowing it to process and generate longer and more complex code across a range of languages including C++, Python, PHP and Java.