AI race: Alibaba, Tencent quickly adopt Meta’s new Llama 3.1 model amid excitement

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China’s biggest tech firms moved quickly to adopt the most advanced open-source large language model from the owner of Facebook on their cloud platforms.

Alibaba said it is offering one month of free compute resources that can be used for training and inferencing tasks with Llama 3.1, which launched on Monday.

Meta is offering the latest version of Llama in three different sizes – 8B, 70B and 450B – that are named after the billions of parameters they include.

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Author / Journalist: Ben Jiang

Category: Technology

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Topics: Platforms Model Alibaba Meta Llama Meta’s Facebook Tencent Chinese Models Open-source

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Published On: 2024-07-25 @ 18:00:23 (9 hours ago)

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