Meta makes public its ChatGPT rival Llama 2

Facebook’s Meta logo sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, California (Tony Avelar/AP)

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard but it is taking a different approach: releasing it for free.

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company is partnering with Microsoft to introduce the next generation of its AI large language model and making the technology, known as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use.