Meta Platforms Inc. Releases Artificial Intelligence Model 'Code Llama' For Writing Computer Codes

Meta's Llama Code will be available for free (photo: Twitter @MetaAI)

Meta Platforms Inc., the company behind Facebook and Instagram, announced that it will be releasing an artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to assist in writing computer codes, which expands their push for the new technology.

The AI model, dubbed Code Llama, will be available for free and can write code based on human text instructions and can be used to complete code and tracing, the social media giant said in a post on their blog.

Today we’re releasing Code Llama, a large language model built on top of Llama 2, fine-tuned for coding & state-of-the-art for publicly available coding tools.Keeping with our open approach, Code Llama is publicly-available now for both research & commercial use.More ⬇️

— Meta AI (@MetaAI) August 24, 2023

Today we're releasing Code Llama, a large language model built on top of Llama 2, fine-tuned for coding & state-of-the-art for publicly available coding tools. Getting with our open approach, Code Llama is publicly-available now for both research & commercial use.More

Since OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT at the end of last year, companies and businesses have rushed to a new generative AI market for new capabilities and refined their business processes.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has released a number of AI models, mostly free, this year, including an open source language model called Llama which is a serious challenge for OpenAI's models backed by Alphabet's Microsoft and Google.

According to Meta, the new AI model builds on top of the latest Llama 2 language model from Meta and will be available in different configurations, as they prepare to compete with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot codewriting tool.

"Code Llama supports popular programming languages such as Python, Java, and C++ and is not recommended for general text assignments," Meta said in its release.