– **IBM’s New AI Integration**: IBM is set to integrate Meta’s Llama 2-chat, a 70 billion parameter model, into its enterprise AI and data platform, watsonx.ai.
– **Early Access**: Select clients and partners now have early access to this integration
– **Collaboration with Meta**: IBM’s move builds on its ongoing collaboration with Meta, including work on open-source projects like the PyTorch machine learning framework and the Presto query engine.
– **IBM’s AI Strategy**: IBM aims to offer both third-party and its own AI models. Watsonx.ai currently supports models from IBM and the Hugging Face community for various NLP tasks.
– **Upcoming Features**: The addition of Llama 2 is a significant step in IBM’s generative AI roadmap. Future releases will include the AI Tuning Studio, more AI models in watsonx.ai, and FactSheets in watsonx.governance.
– **Safety Measures**: IBM emphasizes trust and security. Users can activate the AI guardrails function in watsonx.ai to automatically filter out harmful language when using the Llama 2 model.
– **IBM’s Expertise**: IBM Consulting boasts 21,000 experts in data, AI, and automation, including over 1,000 consultants specializing in generative AI.
– **Open Innovation**: Both IBM and Meta champion open innovation, encouraging a diverse community of AI builders and researchers to collaborate and drive further advancements.
– **Free Trial**: AI enthusiasts can explore watsonx.ai through a free trial available at [IBM’s website](https://lnkd.in/dGxMwq63).
IBM Plans to Make Llama 2 Available within its Watsonx AI and Data Platform
