Meta's Code Llama 70B is Impressive

Meta's Contribution to AI is gaining momentum.

Hey Everyone,

Programmers are already using LLMs to assist in a variety of tasks, ranging from writing new software to debugging existing code. The goal is to make developer workflows more efficient, so they can focus on the most human centric aspects of their job, rather than repetitive tasks.

The future of code and software development remains one of the most fascinating impacts of Generative A.I. on the tech workforce and innovation itself. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT and other coding tools are becoming more useful in recent times. More will follow.

Meta’s latest update to its code generation AI model, Code Llama 70B, is “the largest and best-performing model” yet. Code Llama tools launched in August and are free for both research and commercial use.

This updated model can write code in various programming languages, such as Python, C++, Java and PHP, from natural language prompts or existing code snippets. According to a post on Meta’s AI blog, Code Llama 70B can handle more queries than previous versions, which means developers can feed it more prompts while programming, and it can be more accurate.

Let’s see what they say:

Update: Jan 29, 2024: Releasing Code Llama 70B

• We are releasing Code Llama 70B, the largest and best-performing model in the Code Llama family

• Code Llama 70B is available in the same three versions as previously released Code Llama models, all free for research and commercial use:

  • CodeLlama - 70B, the foundational code model;

  • CodeLlama - 70B - Python, 70B specialized for Python;

  • and Code Llama - 70B - Instruct 70B, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.

• Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts.

• Code Llama is free for research and commercial use.

• Code Llama is built on top of Llama 2 and is available in three models:

  • Code Llama, the foundational code model;

  • Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python;

  • and Code Llama - Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.

• In our own benchmark testing, Code Llama outperformed state-of-the-art publicly available LLMs on code tasks

Download the models

https://bit.ly/3Oil6bQ • CodeLlama-70B • CodeLlama-70B-Python • CodeLlama-70B-Instruct