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Microsoft and Meta expand AI partnership

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At this year ’ s Microsoft Inspire , Meta and Microsoft announced support for the Llama 2 family of large language models ( LLMs ) on Azure and Windows . Llama 2 is designed to enable developers and organisations to build generative AI-powered tools and experiences .
“ Meta and Microsoft share a commitment to democratising AI and its benefits and we are excited that Meta is taking an open approach with Llama 2 ,” John Montgomery - Corporate Vice President , Azure AI wrote in a blog post . “ We offer developers choice in the types of models they build on , supporting open and frontier models and are thrilled to be Meta ’ s preferred partner as they release their new version of Llama 2 to commercial customers for the first time .”
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