Meta launches AI model for coding
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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) on Thursday said it is launching a large language model, or LLM, called Code Llama which can use text prompts to generate and discuss code.
The tech giant noted that Code Llama is free for research and commercial use. It has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write robust and well-documented software.
Code Llama is a code-specialized version of Llama 2 which was created by further training Llama 2 on its code-specific datasets, the company added. In July, the company launched Llama 2, in collaboration with Microsoft (MSFT), for free research and commercial use.
Code Llama can generate code and natural language about code, from code and natural language prompts, such as 'write me a function that outputs the fibonacci sequence.' It can also be used for code completion and debugging.
The company noted that it supports several popular programming languages, including Python, C++, Java, PHP, Typescript (Javascript), C#, Bash and more.
Meta said it also fine-tuned two additional variations of Code Llama: Code Llama â Python and Code Llama â Instruct.
Over the past several months, Meta has launched several other AI models. Earlier this month, Meta introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft which enables users to generate audio and music from text prompts.
Companies around the world have launched their own LLMs â Baidu's (BIDU) Ernie Bot, Alibaba's (BABA) Tongyi Qianwen and Tongyi Wanxiang, Google's (GOOG) (GOOGL) Bard, OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney Inc.'s Midjourney, are some of them.

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