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Meta’s ChatGPT rival goes public
Facebook-parent Meta announced the release of its next generation AI model Llama 2 this week, with Microsoft as its “preferred partner.” While Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google did not provide extensive details about the training data sets for their ChatGPT and Bard chatbots respectively, Meta pushed for an open-source approach and said its model would allow users to help combat issues.