Meta announced on Monday that its Llama artificial intelligence (AI) models will be available to US government agencies and contractors. The announcement comes just days after reports claimed that the company’s open-source AI models were being used by researchers in China for military use. The social media giant highlighted that it will also make its Llama model available to entities in the US that are working on defense and national security applications, as well as private sector partners that can support their work. Have been.
In the newsroom post, Meta confirmed that it has made Llama available directly to US government agencies, as well as any partner organizations working with the country’s government. The company also partners with private enterprises such as Accenture Federal Services, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI, and Snowflake to bring Llama to government agencies. Still working. ,
Highlighting how Meta’s AI models are helping the US government through private enterprises, the company listed several examples. It says Oracle is building on Llama to synthesize aircraft maintenance documents. This is said to help enterprises diagnose problems quickly and accurately, speed up repair times, and much more.
Similarly, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are hosting Meta’s AI models on their cloud servers to build solutions for sensitive data, the company said. IBM’s WatsonX is said to be bringing Llama to national security agencies through its self-managed data centers.
Meta said large language models (LLMs) can support many aspects of US security and national security due to their ability to process large amounts of data and generate insights. Citing more use cases, the social media giant said LLM can also help streamline logistics and planning, track terrorist financing and strengthen cyber security.
“Open source systems have helped accelerate defense research and high-end computing, identify security vulnerabilities, and improve communications between disparate systems,” it says.
Notably, this announcement comes after Reuters reported that Chinese research institutes linked to the People’s Liberation Army were using the open-source Llama AI model to develop a tool that could potentially be adapted for military use. Can be used.
