Meta is opening up its Llama AI models to government agencies and contractors working on national security, the company said . The group includes more than a dozen private sector companies that work with the US government, including Amazon Web Services, Oracle and Microsoft, as well as defense contractors such as Palantir and Lockheed Martin.
Mark Zuckerberg hinted at the move during Meta’s earnings call last week the company was “working with the public sector to adopt Llama within the US government.” Now Meta provides more details about the scope of this work.
For example, Oracle is “building on Llama to synthesize aircraft technical documentation so that technicians can diagnose problems more quickly and accurately, speed up repair times and return critical aircraft to service.” According to Meta, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are “using Llama to support governments by deploying our models in secure cloud solutions for sensitive data.”
Meta also provides Llama-like access to governments and contractors in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Bloomberg . Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, suggested in a blog post that these collaborations will help the US compete with China in the global arms race over artificial intelligence. “We believe that it is in the interest of both America and the wider democratic world that American open source models prevail and succeed over models from China and elsewhere.” “As an American company and one that owes its success to the entrepreneurial spirit and democratic values espoused by the United States, Meta wants to do its part to support America’s safety, security and economic prosperity. allies too.”
