Meta’s Llama 2 AI is free and not just for research -- but it's not open source

It is a generous and permissive licence, but prohibits the use of Llama to “improve any other large language model; excluding Llama 2” and users must request a special commercial licence if their product's MAU exceed 700 million.

By Edward Targett

Updated Jul 21, 2023 9:49 AM / Published Jul 19, 2023 12:16 PM 4 min read

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Edward Targett

Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.