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Although Mark Zuckerberg has praised Meta’s Llama AI as one of the most advanced technologies, his company is happy to use its partner again when needed.
Meta’s internal coding tool, Metamate, integrates OpenAI’s GPT-4 version, along with Llama’s Meta version, to make the tool more useful for developers and other Meta users who use it, two people who used the tool. Chance. The OpenAI model has been part of Metamate since earlier this year.
The person, a current and former Meta employee who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals from Meta, said they have found Metamate to be helpful. It seems to pull answers to questions that curve or ask from Llama or GPT-4, he said, depending on the type of question or how the employee uses the tool.
“It’s one of the best genAI things they’ve done,” one user of the tool said of Meta’s efforts in AI development. Metamate is similar to other AI coding tools such as Microsoft’s GitHub CoPilot or Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet.
Separately, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a large philanthropic organization run by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is a client of OpenAI, two people familiar with the organization said. Chance. CZI is developing a genAI “training” tool based on ChatGPT with some customizations, or a so-called “wrapper” for the genAI technology. Earlier this year, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, was named the new CEO AI Advisory Board at CZI.
A spokesman for Meta declined to comment. CZI representatives did not respond to emails seeking comment.
While it’s not unusual for a company using genAI tools to have employees rely on more than one model, Zuckerberg positioned Meta as such. an important player in model wars. It’s a battle many companies are waging against OpenAI, which released ChatGPT two years ago and launched a race to usher in what many consider a new era of technology. Zuckerberg has spent the past year promoting Llama as an “open source” solution that is as good or better than completely closed versions, such as OpenAI’s and Google.
After Meta released a new model of Llama in the middle of the year, The CEO said it was” competitive with the most advanced and advanced models in other areas.” By next year, Zuckerberg announced that the Llama brand would be “the most advanced in the industry”.
However, a tool like Metamate, and its base version Llama, still needs to be supported by something like GPT-4 to work properly. And it doesn’t matter that the Llama is one of the largest breeds in the world, with the latest breed pre-trained for trillions of symbols, individual information is entered into the LLM, with computer numbers four times more than the original set.
One of the people he talked to Chance he agreed that the latest version of Metamate, formerly known as Code Compose, is useful for technical work at Meta, noting that it is “great as a student.” Definition: It is good for writing articles but not for the most demanding technical work.
However, a side effect of AI’s effectiveness is that top managers think they need fewer employees. “It’s part of what makes people quit,” the person said.
Yes, Meta did gradually removed more workers this year after cutting more than 20,000 jobs between 2022 and 2023.
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