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Meta's New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate around the potential pitfalls of releasing AI without guardrails.

Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. When Linux took off in the late 90s and early 2000s many big tech companies were invested in closed alternatives and criticized open source software as risky and unreliable. Liang also notes that Llama 3.1 is not truly open source because Meta imposes restrictions on its usage, for example limiting the scale at which the model can be used in commercial products.

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