Llama 2 Launch: Overnight, Big Model Competition Comes to a New Beginning

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When a company’s new technology is far ahead and it is about to monopolize an industry, what should the pursuers do?

In 2008, a year after the release of the iPhone, major mobile phone manufacturers struggled to develop operating systems to catch up with Apple. Microsoft has Windows Mobile, Blackberry has BBOS, Nokia has developed Maemo based on the Linux system, and Palm is secretly developing WebOS…

Less than five years later, the only smartphones that can still be sold are either from Apple or the open source Android system. Today, Apple’s competitors no longer have their own operating systems, but they control more than 80% of the smartphone market.

An entire industry revolving around open source technologies, consolidating against the leaders, is a constant occurrence in today’s technology competition.

The Windows system is difficult to challenge, and the technology industry, dissatisfied with Microsoft, has turned Linux into the operating system of websites and Internet applications. Amazon AWS has pioneered the cloud computing industry, and competing companies such as Alibaba Cloud and IBM regard Google’s Kubernetes (K8S) open source technology as the standard. With almost all mobile processors relying on the ARM architecture, RISC-V is receiving broad investment support.

Meta contributed another such example last night. They announced that the large language model Llama 2 will be conditionally open sourced for commercial use (more than 700 million monthly active users need to apply separately), and they are leading the open source standard in the era of large models. And OpenAI’s close partner Microsoft, this time became Llama 2’s primary partner.

Microsoft announced this cooperation at the Inspire conference held on the same day, and just 2 minutes before the announcement, Microsoft also drew “Microsoft

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